Transportation In The Pharma Supply Chain: Understanding The Carrier Roles In A Logistics Environment

The shipping environment in the supply chain can be a complex system in which many decision-makers do not have a full visibility into the different parties that exist and the roles that they serve. Many decision-makers in any supply chain struggle with a seemingly simple question: “How do I get my product from Point A to Point B?”

Personnel in the pharma supply chain struggle with additional questions on how to not only move temperature-sensitive products so that they will remain in the needed temperature range, but also how to provide proof that such product remained in compliance. Additional concerns of security affect nearly anybody with a product in a supply chain, but are of special concern to anybody with a high value product that criminals find an easy market for, such as pharmaceuticals, OTC medicine, apparel, and other industries plagued by their popularity as criminal targets.