United Drug Supply Chain Service is Ireland's premier distributor of pharmaceuticals such as medications and health and beauty products. The company is part of the international Group UDG Healthcare that is specialized in the entire service provider portfolio in the health care sector – supply chain, packaging, sales, marketing and medical technology. With its branches in Dublin, Ballina, Limerick and Belfast, United Drug Supply Chain Services supplies Ireland and Great Britain with essential pharmaceuticals. In 2012, SSI SCHAEFER was commissioned to increase the picking system from 7,000 lines to 12,000 lines, integrate some of the existing system components, and to automate a large part of the system in order to increase efficiency and enable the company to maintain their market leadership. Today the distribution center processes a product range of more than 10,200 items and approximately 6,000 packages are shipped every day.