Understanding the environment through which a sensitive pharmaceutical/life science product must travel is essential for any successful supply chain. It provides the solid foundation for design and choice of packaging that ensures the maintenance of the required product temperature during external distribution.
Choosing the right route and packaging is one thing – but how well do you know your supply chain partners in terms of their capabilities in Good Distribution Practice standards? Arguably this is just as important since we know that even the best designed and manufactured packaging solution can easily fail if poorly handled by untrained staff who are not aware of the peculiar needs of your shipment. And since the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector is so heavily dependent upon the need to outsource their distribution activities, there has been a clear and welcomed drive by regulators to define the responsibilities of parties in this process:
