Cold chain management is an essential part of maintaining product quality and being compliant with regulations when distributing products such as pharmaceuticals. Without cold chain management, many businesses would find themselves unable to operate.

Most pharmaceuticals, vaccines and biopharmaceutical medicines are required to be temperature controlled. This can sometimes be difficult when trying to transport products to their destination. This is where cold chain logistics are just what the pharmaceutical industry needs.

What is Cold Chain Logistics?

Cold chain logistics is everything involved in transporting products at a controlled temperature to maintain the quality of the product.

Thermal Packaging

Pharmaceutical products don’t just need to be protected from damage during transport, they also need to be protected from external factors such as heat to maintain the integrity of the product. There are multiple external factors which can affect the integrity of the product such as temperature and the time it takes to deliver the pharmaceuticals, vaccines and biopharmaceutical medicines.

Maintaining Product Quality

Maintaining product quality within the pharmaceutical industry is imperative, even the slightest change in product quality can hinder the effectiveness of the product. Pharmaceutical products such as medicine or vaccines can be ruined when exposed to sunlight or incorrect temperatures.

The use of cold chain management allows your products to be packaged, shipped, and managed transparently. Products such as pharmaceuticals and cold-kept products are required to be stored at cold temperatures to maintain the quality of the products. Without cold chain management products could lose their quality through the packing and shipping process before they even reach their destination.

Cost-Effective

Thermal packaging is also cost-effective. Compared to more costly methods of temperature-control such as specialised vehicles, thermal packaging requires a lot less maintenance and resources to maintain. Considering how well thermal packaging can protect product quality, it is much less likely that the product will need to be replaced. For example, imagine that a vehicle breaks down and temperatures rise, you could have a truckload of unusable product that needs to be replaced.

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Data Loggers

Monitor your global Cold Chain shipments in a central database in the Cloud, or integrate the temperature data into your ERP.  At the destination the data logger automatically creates a PDF report summarising temperature exposure during shipment. We offer the full range of ELPRO site and central monitoring systems upon request.

Little Room for Errors

Compared to logging data manually, an automated device that logs the data for you is considerably more accurate, leaving less room for errors. Within the pharmaceutical industry, even a small error in the data such as the temperature being logged incorrectly even a degree wrong could result in an unusable product.

Saved Time and Resources

Data loggers offer constant monitoring, when you consider the resources, this would require to be carried out manually, there is a significant amount of time saved. Think of all the resources which could be utilised elsewhere. Information from data loggers can also be transferred digitally which eliminates the time needed to write up and log information digitally.

It’s more sustainable

The use of cold chain management is a great way to increase sustainability. It’s simple, the less product that is wasted or spoiled means the less product that needs to be made to replace it. 2023 will call for businesses to be more sustainable, it’s more important now than ever before to use a more sustainable approach in the way businesses produce their products, ship them, and sell them to their customers.

Regulation compliance

Just like anything, businesses are required to follow specific regulations related to the goods or services that they are selling. In the case of many pharmaceuticals and cold-kept foods, there are regulations in place which require them to be kept at a certain temperature in packaging that can maintain the temperature and can be monitored.

We Have Your Solution

Your cargo is in safe hands with Cold Chain Packing & Logistics tailor-made supply chain solutions. We can help you safely transport your products from anywhere in the world while ensuring that the quality of your products is maintained. If you are in need of packaging solutions, we can provide temperature controlled thermally protected packaging solutions. We will protect your products throughout the entire process with monitoring systems for your products in transit, covering all critical control points in your supply chain.

-Nabil Awan, CEO of Cold Chain Packing & Logistics

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