Methods and systems for adaptive storage and management of pharmaceuticalproduct containers at a pharmacy are described. Pharmaceutical productcontainersare managed so that the containers for more-frequently-used pharmaceuticalproductsare stored among plural storage locations more-efficiently accessible to apharmacyworkstation. Containers for less-frequently-used pharmaceutical products aremanaged so that the containers for such products are stored among the storagelocations which are less-accessible to the pharmacy workstation. As thefrequency ofpharmaceutical product usage changes, the inventory of pharmaceutical productcontainers is managed adaptively so that the containers used most frequentlyarestored at locations more-easily accessible to the pharmacy workstation,therebyfacilitating fulfillment of prescriptions by pharmacy personnel. Furtherefficienciesmay be achieved through use of an optical positioning system providingdirectedplacing and picking of pharmaceutical product containers.
