It’s hard enough to win one award, let alone two, but GlaxoSmithKline did just that when the company excelled in the 2013 European Supply Chain Excellence Awards
Browsing: Healthcare and Pharma
FedEx has expanded its SenseAware network to 14 countries across Europe. The service, for sensitive products such as pharmaceuticals, includes monitoring of temperature, light exposure, relative humidity, shock and barometric pressure.
UPS has bought Polar Speed, the UK-based provider of temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical supply chain services as part of its strategy to strengthen its healthcare network across Europe
IAG Cargo has started commercial flights to Johannesburg on the new Airbus A380
IAG Cargo has introduced its Constant Climate network into five new European airports in Prague, Vienna, Las Palmas, Basel, and Zurich, to support businesses operating from these key pharmaceutical hubs
Kuehne + Nagel has extended is its logistics centre at Geel in Belgium from 45,000 sq m to 65,000 sq m
arvato Healthcare has entered a partnership with Swiss pre-wholesale company, Voigt Industrie Service, to offer its customers an integrated solution for the final-mile delivery of medication in Switzerland
In this category all three entries produced good scores, but this was a tough one to compete in
This year those in Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals were given their own category. In previous years, healthcare has more often been grouped under Public Services
Imperial Health Sciences (IHS) has teamed up with Yusen Logistics, to launch a dedicated temperature controlled sea freight consolidation service for medicines to southern Africa