Baptist Health Turns To Lucas As A WMS Alternative

Baptist Health South Florida is an internationally recognized healthcare network with 10 hospitals, more than 100 physician practices, and outpatient facilities spanning four counties from Palm Beach to the Florida Keys. Like other U. S. integrated delivery networks (IDNs), Baptist Health has adopted a self-distribution strategy with a central Distribution Center serving its facilities.

Direct distribution helps to contain supply chain costs, and to reduce the amount of valuable space used for storing inventory at hospitals.

Shortly after starting up a new 157,000 square foot DC in 2014, operations and IT teams at Baptist started seeking software solutions to improve manual material handling processes. After exploring warehouse management systems to complement their PeopleSoft ERP from Oracle, they opted to install the Lucas Warehouse Optimization Suite.

The Lucas system has provided larger productivity and accuracy benefits than expected, and it also allowed Baptist Health to use its PeopleSoft system as a single system of record for inventory management and tracking across their network. According to Dale Adamson, AVP of Logistics and Distribution, “We got seventy percent of what we wanted in a new WMS with Lucas, but at one-eighth of the cost.”