L-R Vinod Juneja, Minoru Amano, Kenji Aya, Tadahiko Konoike, Bharat Kaushal during the launch of  Medical Product Catalogue

Gurugram-based Carna Medical Database Pvt Ltd, a joint venture of two Japanese companies, recently launched the first-of-its-kind Medical Product Catalogue based on their expertise and technology in India to address the gaps in the supply chain of medical consumables and establish a logistic network to smoothen Indian medical healthcare supply chain management system.

Overview

In the light of a double digit growth being witnessed in the Indian healthcare sector, India has huge potential for investment. In order to tap such an investment opportunity & post registering success in Japan, two Japanese giants Konoike Transport and Medius Holdings decided to invest in India where healthcare infrastructure has been a top priority.

With initial capital investment of Rs 200 million, Konoike and Medius established a joint venture in India Carna Medical Database Pvt Ltd to implement Japanese technology and a real time-tested expertise to create and distribute a medical consumable database and establishing a logistic network to smoothen Indian medical healthcare supply chain management system.

Main Gaps in Supply Chain Management System

• Orders are still made manually.
• Many discrepancies in nomenclature of products at various levels.

Understanding Partners

• Konoike Transport Co. Ltd: With a majority share of 70 per cent in Carna, Konoike is a total logistics provider for more than 130 years. With strong positioning in medical-related services as one of the next-generation core business areas, the company provides total solution service.
• Medius Holdings: It is one of the largest medical equipment distributors in Japan. It provides safe and efficient medical services by utilising its unique logistic system and medical equipment database.

Understanding Medical Product Catalogue

• End result of 2 years of tedious work.
• Contains around 26,000 consumables & disposables product data from medical manufacturers all over India.
• Includes detailed information about medical consumables, disposables & implants.
• Serves as a solution to streamline the supply chain management process.
• Offers a wide variety of equipment to choose from.
• QR Codes have been strategically placed in the catalogue to help hospitals instantly get in touch with manufacturers and distributors.
• Has currently covered 26,000+ data and target is to have 100,000+ data in the next phase.

Key Objectives

• Deliver services to hospitals, medical manufacturers & medical distributors by providing them eight levels of classification and a unique coding system for each medical product.
• Offer single search enabled and interactive platform.
• Will be distribute pan India across 8,000 hospitals.
• Will also reach tier-II and tier-III cities.

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