The big supply chain disruptor is the regulators, say shippers
Shippers need their supply chain partners to collaborate in order to speed up processes and ...
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By Alex Lennane
Despite heavy marketing by some carriers and forwarders, standards in pharmaceutical logistics are not always as good as are billed, and should be further standardised, according to one pharma shipper.
Yulia Celetaria, head of logistics for Early Health Group, should know: she was global pharma director for Volga-Dnepr Group and AirBridgeCargo before making the rare move to become a shipper.
“There is often zero understanding among some shippers about the airline industry,” she told The Loadstar on the sidelines of the ACE ...
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Alan Kennedy
December 07, 2023 at 4:59 pmThis article contains some interesting and widely-held viewpoints. It is issues like these that have recently led to the industry coming together to take a collaborative approach to pharma Good Distribution Practice and regulatory compliance.
The non-profit GDP-UCI (Universal Compliance Initiative) has the goals of introducing new concepts for achieving, demonstrating and recording GDP compliance; of introducing the means for meaningful GDP measurement for comparison, benchmarking and continuous improvement purposes; and of creating abmore harmonised GDP training environment.
It is achieving these goals through the involvement and alignment of all the supply chain parties and disciplines that are involved in, or affected by, the GDP regulations and guidelines and, it is this collaborative approach that distinguishes it from other industry bodies that are active in this space.
GDP-UCI is a democratically-governed social enterprise that is neutral, fully independent and open to all organisations that are active in the field of pharmaceutical distribution.