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Two Ways to Help Protect the Integrity of Your High-Value Healthcare Shipments

Never underestimate the impact of losing a shipment—whether you’re facing complete loss, spoilage, or delay. For healthcare companies in particular, the potential for financial loss is magnified when transporting high-value products like time-sensitive cancer medications, temperature-sensitive vaccines, and expensive devices like MRI equipment and pacemakers. The margin for error is slim, and your logistics decisions may impact your bottom line.

Losses associated with temperature excursions alone in the healthcare industry are estimated at $35 billion. Here are two ways to help control the integrity and security of your high-value goods.

1. Insist on expert, round-the-clock monitoring

The possibility for risk or delay is everywhere. Pharma products from Asia could have longer lead-times, exposing the shipments to unforeseen delays and conditions. New defibrillators inadvertently misclassified on a form get stuck in customs. Temperature-sensitive drugs could be compromised by carrier delays or packaging failures.

Having a monitoring system in place can help to alert logistics operators, so they can resolve such issues before problems become acute. But not every healthcare company has the technology or resources to oversee such tasks. So it’s important to find a logistics provider who can expertly manage and track—and intervene, if necessary—to make sure your shipments are delivered in good condition and on time.

Clinical Supplies Management, which manages supply chains for clinical trial sites around the world, has temperatures, times, and destinations to control. In one clinical trial, they were faced with the need to ship a life-saving medicine for a rare disease that expire in 48 hours.

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