White paper: Why quality matters when choosing a specialty logistics partner
By Carina Plada
Ensure the integrity of your pharmaceutical supply chain with expert insights on supply chain quality management
Who this white paper is for: This white paper is essential for pharmaceutical professionals, supply chain managers, and quality assurance specialists who are responsible for ensuring the safe and efficient delivery of pharmaceutical products.
Why you need this white paper: This white paper provides deep insights into supply chain risk management strategies, supplier relationships, and pharma cold chain logistics to help you maintain the highest standards of quality assurance.
Key learning points
- Risk management in pharmaceutical logistics
Learn how to proactively identify and address various supply chain risks - Supplier management strategies
Choose the right approach to mitigate supply chain risk and maintain product quality - Lane assessment and shipping qualification
Discover the importance of thorough lane assessments and shipping qualifications
For more information on how World Courier can support your pharmaceutical logistics needs, contact us today.
What this white paper covers
Introduction to supply chain risks
Ensuring quality in the specialty pharmaceutical supply chain is not just a regulatory requirement — it is essential for patient safety and treatment efficacy worldwide. This white paper explores the importance of supply chain risk management and how to effectively manage and mitigate these risks.
Risk management in pharmaceutical logistics
Risk is an inherent part of pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, and distribution. By proactively identifying and addressing various supply chain risks throughout the life cycle of a pharmaceutical product, companies can ensure therapies that reach patients are safe, effective, and of the highest quality. Effective logistics risk management is a process based on scientific evidence, data, and procedures integrated into every stage of the product’s manufacturing and distribution.
Supplier management in pharma supply chains
Effective supplier management is essential to ensuring a consistent supply of vital treatments of the highest quality. Organizations often have the opportunity to choose between tactical and strategic relationships with suppliers of materials or services. Choosing wisely between different supplier models can make all the difference in reducing the level of risk and maintaining the highest product quality.
Cold chain risk management
Pharmaceutical products and medical devices are often delicate, reacting to conditions such as temperature, humidity, light exposure, tilting, or vibration. For CGTs, such as biologics, and delicate sensors or medical devices, regulations and guidelines for optimal storage and transport conditions are very strict.
Specialty medical logistics providers commonly use cryogenic shipping, working with firmly established controls, alarms, and contingency plans.
Lane assessment and shipping qualification
Lane assessment enables specialty logistics providers to evaluate potential risks associated with all considered transportation routes and consider all hazards that a shipment may encounter on the way to its destination, allowing them to implement risk mitigation strategies and protect the product.
Thorough lane assessments and shipping qualifications help expert shipping partners identify potential supply chain weaknesses, mitigate supply chain risk, improve overall efficiency, and maintain product quality to ensure patients always receive safe and effective therapies.
