It is 1:15 p.m. this Wednesday in January. Like every day, Anne Salvi, pharmacist in Neuilly-sur-Seine, transmits her order of medicines to her wholesaler and distributor, the multinational Alliance Healthcare. This is the cut-off time to guarantee customers delivery in the afternoon. Live, she is informed of the delivery time. These are 80 references that his pharmacy, under the Alphega brand, no longer has in stock. Each month, she buys for around 100,000 euros from her supplier for her pharmacy, which generates 2 million euros in annual turnover.
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Behind the scenes, a real race against the clock begins at the Alliance Healthcare warehouse, located in Gennevilliers, in the Paris region. It feels like Amazon or Cdiscount. This immense space of 15,000 m2, one of the five regional warehouses of the company, serves 450 pharmacies in Île-de-France located within a radius of 60 kilometers. This site offers more than 20,000 references (from a catalog of 32,000 from Alliance
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