Supply Chain/Logistics

Robust materials management, supplier quality management, quality control, and business continuity planning are essential to ensure continuous supply of single-use bags.

Logistics manufacturers are adapting to explosive growth in the use of direct-to-patient clinical trials. Michael Sweeney, director of patient-centric logistics at World Courier Group, discusses the new model’s impact.

InstantGMP INV is a validated software for real-time material tracking and inventory control in biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

Certificates of analysis can be used to monitor the reliability of products and their suppliers, says Susan Schniepp, distinguished fellow at Regulatory Compliance Associates.

Telstar reports that its Boreas, a new 86° ultra-low-temperature freezer, increases average performance by 20%.

Lower costs, fewer opportunities for temperature excursions, and a smaller carbon footprint are making ocean transport more attractive for pharmaceuticals. Poseidon, a new collaborative pharma initiative, seeks to leverage benefits.

Alan Kennedy, executive director of TEAM UP, shared perspectives on Poseidon and ocean transport.

LogTag has added two new devices to its temperature data logger series.

Pharma Team Up has launched Poseidon, an integrated ocean freight program, to address the disconnect between pharma companies and their logistics providers.

Pharmaceutical companies and contract manufacturing organizations report lack of readiness for the November 2018 US Drug Supply Chain Security Act serialization deadline.

A review of 2017 advancements from the Open-SCS working group with Charlie Gifford, group technical director.

Open standards based on GAMP and GS1 will soon be released and more companies are moving beyond basic compliance.

Oceasoft has updated its line of Bluetooth-enabled temperature data loggers for shipping and logistics applications.

Cross-functional reliability rooms identify risk and planning metrics, provide insights for production forecasts, and predict trends and areas for improvement.

Manufacturers and trading partners struggle to meet drug tracking requirements

This article explores some of the challenges, services, and technologies that go into ensuring that vaccines are properly temperature controlled and maintain product integrity for delivery to patients.

Supply Chain Wizard has developed a set of integrated digital solutions to improve supply chain functions.

The Almac Pod, a temperature-controlled shipping solution service for biologics and other temperature-sensitive products, is compliant with good distribution practices and comes in three models.

Despite GxP and data-management challenges, pharma is moving toward new models for clinical trial logistics.

Almac Group’s Almac Pod, a temperature-controlled shipping solution service for biologics and other temperature-sensitive products, is available in the United States.

Baxter and FDA are working together to prevent shortages of the company’s sodium chloride 0.9% injection bags after recent hurricanes damaged the island.

Genentech, AmerisourceBergen, and McKesson are providing pharma user requirements for a new project that will evaluate blockchain‘s potential in meeting requirements of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act, and preventing pharmaceutical counterfeiting.

Virgin Atlantic Cargo and Delta Cargo have opened a new Pharma Zone at their joint facility at London Heathrow Airport for the handling and storage of pharmaceutical shipments.

A grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will advance PnuVax’s pneumonia vaccine’s clinical development and biomanufacturing scale-up using a low-cost manufacturing approach.

DoKaSch Temperature Solutions, a Germany-based provider of climate-controlled air cargo containers, announced that its Opticooler air cargo containers are now available in the United States.