Logistics for the pharmaceutical industry includes not only the transport of the pharmaceutical products, but their storage as well. This is why, when distribution logistics services are offered for these goods and forwarders throughout Europe have storage facilities in the main destinations in the different European countries.
Apart from that, the pharmaceutical products reach the pharmacies through direct channels too with the help of international freight services for pharmaceuticals, consumables and equipment.
Distribution models for increasing the efficiency of the logistics networks providing freight forwarding for the pharmaceutical industry.
In order to ensure continuity of supply and delivery of the products from the pharmaceutical industry a combination of a groupage transport service by the European logistics network with distribution logistics and three models of distribution and storage.
The first model has one level of storage in the main destinations in Europe. It is used to supply the pharmacies in these destinations.
The second model has two levels of storage. It involves the delivery of pharmaceutical products to the central storages in each European country.
The third model has three levels of storage. Apart from storage in the main destinations by groupage services, and from there to storages in central destination in the different European countries, storage is offered in other main destinations in each country.
With these storage models, the international freight forwarders can provide deliveries within 72 hours.
The basic principle of modern logistics – saving time in favour of the supply for the pharmaceutical industry
The time factor is especially important for the distribution logistics for the pharmaceutical industry provided by the European network for logistics services. The timely supply of pharmaceutical products helps meet the ever-growing demand and doesn’t allow for a lack of basic pharmaceuticals and consumables in the European pharmacies.
The member companies of the European Network for transportation devote great attention to the storage models offered, in order to ensure the supply of sufficient quantities to the storages throughout Europe at short notice.
The first level storages are basic for Europe, along with the central and peripheral storages in the different countries, and they ensure timely delivery of pharmaceuticals and consumables to the pharmacies in these countries. Whenever it is necessary, restocking is done quickly from nearby warehouses.
Building and renting new storages – a main goal of the freight forwarders
The European logistics companies keep increasing their storage network by building and hiring new storages in order to provide efficient distribution logistics for pharmaceutical products and for other products as well