January 15, 2024- Cardinal Health announced construction is underway on a new distribution center in Fort Worth, Texas, which will support its at-Home Solutions business, a leading medical supplies provider that serves more than 5 million patients annually in the United States.
The new 340,000 square foot distribution center will consolidate its two existing warehouses into one larger facility, creating approximately 74,000 additional square feet of inventory capacity and retaining its current workforce. Once open, the facility will ship an average of 10,000 packages per day to patients’ homes across the country.
Similar to the distribution centers at-Home Solutions recently opened in South Carolina and Ohio, this new facility is fully equipped with some of the world’s leading robotics and automation technologies. These enhancements will assist employees with picking, packing and shipping packages with enhanced speed, safety and efficiency.
Key technology features include 74 robots, a 1,500-foot-long automated conveyor system and four automated box-making machines that create 500 custom boxes per hour while minimizing waste. Additionally, the facility will use a leading cloud-based warehouse management system that utilizes artificial intelligence to maintain resiliency and flexibility in inventory volume management. The system is used across at-Home Solutions’ entire warehouse network to unify distribution operations across demand, labor, robotics, automation, inventory and transportation within a single platform.