Biopharma Logistics
Biopharma innovators are shaping the future of healthcare, yet have some of the biggest logistics challenges in the industry. We're lighting their path with end-to-end cold chain storage, packaging, and transportation management solutions that help get even the most fragile vaccines and biologics out to the world.
Advanced Logistics Solutions for Complex Biopharma Challenges
Compliant Biopharma Storage
Compliant Biopharma Storage
Vaccines and biologic therapies face stringent local and global regulations requirements to ensure viability. We can help you create a global compliance program to help mitigate risk, drive cost efficiencies, and create an easier path to international expansion.
- More than 17.2 million square feet (1.5+ million square meters) of healthcare-licensed space
- cGDP/cGMP compliant storage facilities
- Flexible and scalable footprint for cold (2°C to 8°C), frozen (-20°C to -80°C), and cryo storage
- ISO 9001 certified and ISO 13485 certified
- UN1845/UN3373 in 100+ countries
- More than 1,200 global operating licenses under management
- Over 220 regulatory agency relationships
- Validated warehouse management system (WMS)
- Validated environmental monitoring and control system
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Cold Chain Packaging
Cold Chain Packaging
From small parcels to large freight shipments, we have a range of temperature-controlled cold chain packaging systems designed to keep biologics at their required temperatures.
- Temperature controlled packages and pallets
- Options for cold (2°C to - 8°C), frozen (20°C to - 80°C), or deep frozen/cryo (down to -169°C)
- Active and passive thermal pack-outs
- Technology-driven tracking sensors
- Global network of re-icing stations that produce their own dry ice
Shipping Visibility and Monitoring
Shipping Visibility and Monitoring
Get peace of mind from order to delivery. UPS® Premier solutions help protect biologics with next-generation sensor technologies to give you real-time shipment visibility and a priority path through the network.
- Technology-driven end-to-end visibility solutions
- Chemical and digital temperature loggers
- GPS and RFID tracking (location within 2 meters)
- 24/7 Command Centers monitoring with proactive alerts
- Advanced sensor-based intervention and recovery
- Delivery verification with signatures saved for up to seven years
Kit Building
Kit Building
High-quality medical kitting makes life easier for your customers and their patients. It can also create greater business efficiencies and an easier path to meeting local and international compliance regulations. We can develop customized solutions to meet your needs.
- Complex kitting with sterilization services
- End-to-end service: development to production to distribution
- Custom design and branding
- Regulation compliant assembly packaging, and labeling
UPS Order to Cash
UPS Order to Cash
Provide world-class customer service while streamlining your cash flow, managing costs, and setting your business up to scale. We can manage your entire biopharma supply chain from order to payment so you can focus on improving lives.
- Full call center outsourcing
- Pricing and promotions
- Order processing and invoicing
- Accounts receivable/payable
- Customer service and dispute resolution
- Return authorizations
- Credits/debits processing
- Reporting and metrics
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Frequently Asked Questions
From cost management to product protection, we can help biopharmaceutical manufacturers deliver their products around the world by:
- Making outbound shipping more efficient
- Increasing visibility
- Enhancing the patient experience
- Simplifying international expansion
- Protecting your products and potentially mitigate risk
We help biopharma products get to their destinations at the right temperature and the right time. Vaccines and biologic therapies face stringent local and global regulations requirements to ensure viability. UPS Healthcare™ Cold Chain Packaging options help protect both cold and cryopreserved products.
For your most critical biopharma shipments, UPS Premier provides enhanced visibility, tracking, and 24/7 monitoring.
UPS Healthcare™Cold Chain Air and Ocean Freight offer transportation solutions for the complex healthcare cold chains. We help you:
- Reduce product losses due to temperature excursion
- Experience reliable performance with robust monitoring and intervention
- Comply with international regulatory standards