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Aknamed

Bengaluru-based hospital supply chain company running the SmartBuy procurement platform and a national warehouse network serving Indian hospitals.

Category
Pharmacy automation and supply chain
Country
India
Head office
Bengaluru

What it supplies

Aknamed, whose registered name is Akna Medical Private Limited, describes itself as a hospital-focused supply chain platform that helps hospitals simplify, optimise and monitor procurement and consumption through a cloud-based technology platform, national infrastructure and a product basket. Its corporate office is in Adugodi, Bengaluru, and its registered office is in Gurgaon, Haryana.

Its SmartBuy platform for hospitals automates purchase requests, purchase orders and goods receipt notes, tracks orders and stock on hand, and connects to hospital information systems through APIs, CSV or Excel files or email-based RPA. The company’s infrastructure page lists 20 warehouses, 500 people, more than 45,000 products and delivery to more than 100 cities, with cold storage at 2 to 8, 9 to 15 and 16 to 25 degrees and temperature data loggers in every delivery. It also runs SmartChain, a service for companies.

Products and services

  • SmartBuy for hospitals
  • SmartChain for companies
  • Cold Chain

Clients it names

  • Manipal Hospital
  • Columbia Asia
  • Fortis
  • Max Healthcare
  • Narayana Health
  • Medanta

As stated by the supplier on its own website. We have not checked these with the hospitals.

Sources

Details are taken from the pages listed below. Listing last checked 17 October 2026.

  1. Aknamed: About
  2. Aknamed: SmartBuy
  3. Aknamed: Our Infrastructure
  4. Aknamed: Contact Us

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