Switching from 2nd Day to Overnight Shipping to Generate Savings
At face value, overnight shipping is more costly than two-day shipping. But thanks to an analysis of the total cost, Merck was able to save...
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Bringing efficiencies to clinical trial logistics
UPS has been supporting clinical trials for years, shipping investigational drugs and medical devices as well as patient specimens around the world. Many of its...
Quality Process Ensures Thermal Packaging Reuse
This is the first of a two-part blog discussion about the challenges in, and value derived from, a temperature-sensitive packaging reuse program. There are many...
Qualification and Validation of Single-Use Shipping Systems
As the biotech industry evolves, there are mounting concerns about the transportation, security, and robustness of cell-culture media, intermediate, or bulk drug substance (BDS). Safe,...
Specimen Logistics: The Rx for a Better Dx
Using best practices in specimen preparation, packaging, and shipping can improve efficiency for diagnostic laboratories. The US healthcare market is valued at $2.8 trillion, with...
How Life Sciences Evolve Logistics Functions to Unleash Their Competitive Advantage
At Temperature Controllled Logistics 2016 Lisa Callinan, Research Director – Supply Chain, Gartner presented the keynote speech on -How Life Sciences Companies Evolve their Logistics...
China’s Cold Chain Craves Targeted Investment Injections
China’s cold chain has been dubbed as ‘one of the hottest sub-industries of logistics’, with temperature controlled logistics set to develop as an attractive area of interest...
Utilization Of Customs Warehouses In The Clinical Trial Supply Chain
The global clinical trial supply chain industry has been seeking new opportunities to improve efficiency for many years. As pressures to decrease cost and reduce...
Three Life Science Cold Chain Trends to Watch in 2016
A perspective from Kevin Lawler, VP of sales at Pelican Bio Thermal – a manufacturer of passive shipping systems – on trends in Cold Chain:...
The Next Big Idea: Integrate the Digital and Physical Supply Chain in Clinical Trials
For decades, the pharmaceutical industry was characterized as risk averse, conservative, and slow to change. In such an environment, being a change agent was not...
