Industries
Central fill looks different depending on who you serve.
Retail and chain, health system, direct-to-patient. The same hardware and the same platform, configured around the volume, form factors and fulfillment models your operation runs.
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Three paths into central fill
Retail & Chain
Chain, grocery and mass retail pharmacy, scaling fill without scaling the front counter. Direct-to-patient orders run on the same platform as central fill and mail order, and spare capacity can fill for other organizations where you want it to.
- New Build or Replacement & Expansion
- Finished prescriptions shipped back to the store
- One system of record across every store you serve
Health System
Health-system pharmacy consolidating fill across sites and campuses. Central fill and central distribution in a single solution, extending past the fill floor to clinics and cabinet replenishment.
- New Build or Replacement & Expansion
- Epic Willow integration as standard implementation
- PV2 matched to each State Board of Pharmacy
Direct-to-Patient
Mail order, specialty and single-category fulfillment, from 30/60/90-day maintenance fills to cold chain GLP-1s. Ambient and refrigerated handled inside the same automated footprint.
- New Build or Replacement & Expansion
- Cold chain: 2 to 8 C rooms, customer-supplied refrigeration
- Start sized to one workload, add models later
What every path shares
One solution, every fulfillment model
RoboPharma is the hardware and Axona is the software platform that runs it. Vial filling and unit-of-use, ambient and refrigerated, move through the same conveyance, inspection and sortation, whatever the destination.
Project type
Two ways in, whichever path you take
Central fill is not an all-or-nothing investment. High-volume cells can be added to a line already running, and Unit of Use can be added to an operation already filling vials.
New Build
A new facility, designed around the automation rather than retrofitted to it. Floor plan, throughput model and staffing plan built together.
See how a new build worksReplacement & Expansion
An existing operation at its ceiling, or automation that cannot cover the formulary you actually dispense. Modular architecture expands capacity without interrupting the operation you are already running.
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Central fill by industry FAQ
Which industries use central fill pharmacy automation?
Chain, grocery and mass retail pharmacy; health systems consolidating fill across hospitals, clinics and campuses; and direct-to-patient operations including mail order and single-category fulfillment. All three centralize filling into one facility that serves many dispensing points.
Does the automation differ by industry?
The hardware and platform are the same. What differs is configuration and where finished prescriptions go. Retail and health system operations ship back to a pharmacy for patient pick-up; direct-to-patient ships to the patient. RoboPharma and Axona support all of them on one conveyed floor.
Can one facility serve more than one of these models?
Yes. Axona routes each order to the right fill location and applies the rules for its destination, so a single facility can run retail replenishment, health system distribution and direct-to-patient fulfillment together, with data isolation and configurable rules for each pharmacy customer.
What if an operation does not fit one of these three paths?
The three paths describe the most common starting points, not the limits of the system. Every project starts with the operation rather than the catalog, so a configuration is designed around the volume, form factors and fulfillment models actually in play.
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