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Every pharmacy spends most of its outgoing cash in the same place, on stock. Yet most contractors still order the way they always have, working from habit rather than data, taking whatever price the wholesaler screen shows that day, and rarely stopping to ask whether a different supplier, a different cascade, or a different order pattern would have saved real money on exactly the same medicines.

Dataplast exists to close that gap. It is purchase and stock management software built specifically for community pharmacy, and it sits between your pharmacy and your suppliers as a genuinely independent layer, not owned by or aligned with any single wholesaler. That independence is the whole point. It gives you the negotiating power, rather than negotiating on your behalf, which means the pricing decisions stay entirely in your hands, informed by better data than a single wholesaler screen will ever show you.

PharmaPlus works in partnership with Dataplast directly, and that partnership has already helped members save thousands of pounds a year on stock costs alone. This is not a generic software recommendation passed on from a supplier directory. It is a working relationship built to put money back into member pharmacies.

What it actually does for day-to-day ordering

Dataplast Navigator manages the cascade and flow control across your suppliers, so ordering compliance stops being guesswork and starts being systematic. It flags when a product is being ordered above Drug Tariff price, a leak that is easy to miss line by line but adds up fast across a full order. It supports stock decisions, transfer management between branches for anyone running more than one site, and handles the fiddly parts nobody enjoys, credit notes, returns, and slow-mover management, in one place rather than scattered across supplier portals and spreadsheets.

For pharmacy groups and anyone managing their own warehouse arrangement, Dataplast Warehouse Management extends the same logic to bulk stock handling, built to increase speed and accuracy in a warehouse setting and to take electronic orders directly from your PMR or from Navigator itself.

Why this matters for margin, not just convenience

None of this is about a nicer interface for the sake of it. It is about a slow, invisible leak that most contractors have simply stopped noticing, paying slightly over the odds on individual lines, missing the best available cascade, letting slow movers sit unresolved for months. On their own, none of these look like much. Across a full year of ordering, they are frequently the difference between a pharmacy that is quietly profitable and one that is quietly not.

For PharmaPlus members already juggling NHS funding pressure and rising costs elsewhere, stock is one of the few levers you control entirely yourself, no contract negotiation with NHS England required, no waiting on a funding settlement. Through our partnership with Dataplast, that lever is already set up and waiting for you to pull it, with real member savings running into the thousands to show for it.

—> Please contact us on info@pharmaplusltd.co.uk for a demo.