Case Study: Large Pharma Company achieves 98% OTIF and theft prevention with Roambee

How This Pharma Giant Beat Its Inventory Management and Theft Challenges with OTIF

Large Pharma Company, one of the 20 largest pharma brands and ranked #1 in the Access to Medicine Index, faced chronic supply-chain theft and poor inventory visibility across 30 distribution centers and 10,000 annual shipments served by 11 transport partners. Traditional GPS trackers and visibility aggregators failed to provide reliable, scalable door-to-door monitoring, leaving the company vulnerable to hijacks (about one FTL per year), temperature risk to vaccines, and uncertainty that forced excess buffer inventory.

Roambee implemented a real-time logistics visibility solution using wireless “Bees” sensors for location and condition monitoring, predictive ETA analytics, night-driving risk mitigation, and the BeeCentral 24x7 control tower to act on anomalies. The Roambee solution delivered 100% shipment visibility, a rise in OTIF from 92% to 98%, two hijacks averted, lower inventory holding and working capital, and enabled a lean JIT approach while improving brand trust and logistics control.