Bio-Pharma/Food damaged during Cold Chain Transport
Fragmented data makes regulatory compliance unlenable
Pharmaceutical and Healthcare organizations lose millions of dollars every year due to broken & disperate supply chains. They face multiple challenges including low visibility and traceability especially when it comes to last-mile users and touchpoints, manual record-keeping, delays, exposures at transits and handing over, damages due to mishandling, delays in shipment data availability, and assurance of shipments travelling at assigned controlled temperature.
Theft, Pilferage, Counter Feiting Risk, Inventory Management, Condition Monitoring, Tampering, Temperature Compliance & Regulatory Compliances To top it all is the challenge of Logistics Planning considering multiple hand offs.
Online food companies have an even bigger task at hand due to increasing scale, multiple product categories, dynamic routes, untrained and constantly churning staff, and regional weather variances. Existing processes and technology solutions such as passive & bulky data loggers are falling short in meeting the real-time monitoring requirements.
International transport and logistics from factory to consumer involves multiple hand-offs between Multimodal 3PLs, Distributors and last mile service providers – further convoluting the ability to monitor shipments of high value goods.There remains major gaps and periods of no communication until arrival at a destination.