Most tender documents for pharmaceutical distribution describe the destination and the volume. Very few describe the twenty or so controlled handoffs that sit between a batch leaving a manufacturing site and a pack reaching a pharmacy, hospital or patient. That gap is where problems come from. A pharmaceutical logistics company is not simply moving boxes … Continued

A pallet of tablets and a pallet of tinned food take up the same floor space. Almost nothing else about how they are stored is the same. Pharmaceutical warehousing is the licensed, controlled storage of medicinal products, active substances and healthcare goods under conditions that preserve their quality, safety and traceability from goods-in through to … Continued

GMP and GDP get used almost interchangeably in supplier conversations, and that causes real problems. They are different legal regimes, under different authorisations, inspected differently, with a precise boundary between them. Choosing a pharmaceutical packaging company without understanding that boundary is how organisations end up with a batch that is packed but stranded, or stock … Continued