Cardinal Health has opened its latest distribution and has plans for another.
The pharmaceuticals, medical and laboratory products distributor shared Sept. 4 that it opened its previously announced DC in Fort Worth, TX — a facility that is dedicated to the company’s at-Home Solutions unit.
It marks Cardinal Health’s third new DC its built and opened in the past three years.
The company said that the 340,000-square-foot DC in Fort Worth will ship about 10,000 packages daily directly to consumers’ homes across the United States, containing critical medical supplies that help manage chronic conditions.
The new DC is Cardinal Health’s third new DC that it has built and opened in the past three years for its at-Home segment, totalling more than 750,000 square feet of added distribution space. The other two DCs are in Ohio and South Carolina. Each are equipped with robotics and automation technology.
Up next, Cardinal Health said that it will break ground on another at-Home DC in Sacramento, CA during its current fiscal year that ends June 30, 2026, as well as retrofit an existing DC in Ontario, CA with state-of-the-art technology that includes a fully automated outbound conveyor system. Those moves were first announced by at-Home President Rob Schlissberg in Cardinal Health’s investor day on June 12.
“Investing in our supply chain is not a ‘nice to have’ — it is a must-have,” said Jamie Deist, at-Home Senior Vice President of Supply Chain. “We will always prioritize what is needed to ensure that our distribution network is built with our customers’ needs in mind. We’ve been intentional as we design our supply chain of the future, being extremely selective of the robotics and automation technologies that enhance our ability to get supplies shipped to patients more quickly and efficiently. No doubt this focus led to what has been the best year on record in at-Home Solutions’ history for warehouse service levels, quality and safety.”
Cardinal Health said the Sacramento DC is expected to be fully operational in summer 2027.
“Expanding in the West Coast is absolutely critical as we seek to get packages to the people we serve faster and more efficiently than ever before,” Deist said. “With numerous carrier hubs and a significant number of our customers located on the West Coast, we knew that now was the right time for us to focus on both expanding our presence and further automating our existing sites in that region of the U.S.”
Cardinal Health had revenue of $223 million in its fiscal 2025 and was No. 3 on MDM’s Top Distributors List for Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare products.
On Aug. 12, the company announced that its specialty management services platform The Specialty Alliance agreed to acquire Solaris Health for $1.9 billion in cash from Lee Equity Partners and Solaris Health physician owners.
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