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PHARMA & HEALTHCARE – A QUICK SYNOPSIS
Pharma & Healthcare is one of the most important and growing industries of the world that faces various challenges during its operations. Providing an entrenched healthcare treatment and developing an advanced cure, healthcare companies have to face increasing costs, rules and regulations, and other complexities at every step. Logistics service providers can help to work through those obstructions and challenges seamlessly.
Pharma and healthcare logistics are considered as one of the significant stages of the functions for any healthcare business as the operations are highly sensitive to time. It is very crucial to provide appropriate treatment or medicine to the right patient at the right place, time, dosage, and a proper price. Since there is fierce competition in the pharma and healthcare industry, success is largely dependent upon supply chain efficiency. Since the Covid-19 pandemic has taken control over the life of humans, the role of pharma and healthcare logistics in the industry has come forward to play a major role.
IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS OF PHARMA AND HEALTHCARE LOGISTICS SERVICES AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Logistics services play a crucial role in the pharma and healthcare industry as the activities and the operations are highly time-critical. Furthermore, the products of healthcare require temperature-controlled warehouses and distribution. Logistics and supply chain management play a vital role in the industry and are expected to contribute to the improvement of productivity and expansion of the industry. Following are the important considerations:
- Protection of the pharma products from contamination
- Storing the perishable products and keeping the quality intact
- Maintaining the required temperature
- Managing inventory
- Exceptionally long cycle periods
- Specialized packaging and labeling
- Maintaining the schedules of delivery and meeting the timeliness.
PROBLEMS FACED BY PHARMA AND HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY
Here are the most significant problems faced by the healthcare industry:
- Lack of transparency: It is one of the most common issues in the pharmaceutical industry and it means difficulty in tracking problems to their origin.
- Digitization: The major problem in healthcare industries is improving the data security, and the way to deliver changes safely for providing help in post-Covid work environments.
- Pharmaceutical fraud: It is a major challenge for the companies and it was worse during the pandemic of Covid19. It has been seen that misconduct during this pandemic time has given rise to higher pharmaceutical fraud.
- Compliance and regulations: Since the regulations are constantly changing, healthcare companies need to organize their supply chains, custom management, and internal control in a far better way, thereby enhancing compliance to a great extent.
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PRACTICES BY GENEX LOGISTICS IN PHARMA AND HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY
Following are the practices of advanced technology by Genex Logistics in the healthcare industry:
- Project-specific transportation: Our company takes initiative for project-specific transportation, bonded warehouses, customs clearance, secondary packaging, management of warehouse representatives, and distribution services for importers and pharmaceutical warehouses. It also offers urgent delivery of products and stock-out product delivery to its customers.
- Hospital Logistics: Genex logistics identify issues and areas of improvement in all the processes of logistics, starting from procuring medicines by hospitals to order procedure and billing of the patients. Apart from that, it creates complete solutions to raise the resources at a sensible level, which the hospitals need to allocate for issues in logistics.
- Pharmaceutical Warehouses: We provide pharmaceutical warehouses with various facilities such as top-quality services for product distribution as per the industry demands, dispatch products to warehouses without any mistake, etc. which is only possible due to the organized distribution network that highlights its process monitoring and product tracking capability.
- Inventory for Medical Industry: We provide effective management of inventory with the appropriate methods of storage for diverse products of the medical industry. Apart from that, it monitors and reports on the logistics processes of the medical items with the help of its system.
- Fleet: We render service to the healthcare industry by providing temperature-controlled vehicles.
- Quality management systems: Our quality assurance team ensures the compliance of healthcare services with regulations of the health ministry and GDP/GMP conditions. The quality management systems include various things such as quality assurance management of pharmaceutical warehouses, temperature tracking system, validation processes, pest control, web-based tracking system of customer complaints, and integrated system of facility management.
SPECIFIC LOGISTIC SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE LEADING COMPANY GENEX LOGISTICS
Being one of the leading logistics service providers, Genex Logistics provides the following services to their clients:
- Temperature-controlled and GDP-compliant road, air, and ocean freight solutions
- Contract logistics solutions which are also GDP-licensed
- Transport solutions for an end-to-end cold chain for the customers as per the regulations or requirements
- Implementation of supply chain and management of risk for securing the requirements of temperature range through a customized method that consists of the return of goods, claims, and contingency plans
- Special monitoring and handling of shipments and complete visibility and accomplishment of distinctive requirements of the customers
- Solutions for specific equipment such as ocean reefer containers, data loggers for visibility and traceability, refrigerated trucks, etc
- Risk management routes design, and implementation of the supply chain for securing the requirements of the temperature range
- Freight packaging expertise
Our compliant and comprehensive services and solution ensure that in the changing, dynamic industry you can whole-heartedly trust our experts for the product’s efficacy, accuracy, in-depth knowledge, and every other thing required for shipping your products till delivery to the customers.