Transportation Management
The strength of your transport management system can make a real difference for the patients at the end of your supply chain. We can give you an edge with our global transport network, suite of end-to-end solutions, and healthcare logistics expertise.
End-to-end transport management solutions for healthcare businesses
Freight Forwarding Made Easy
The UPS® Forwarding Hub is your one-stop shop for air and ocean freight quoting, booking, tracking and support.
UPS Supply Chain Symphony® for UPS Healthcare
Manage your warehouse and transportation data in a single platform.
Healthcare Transport Management FAQs
Why should I consider outsourcing my transportation management with you?
We help improve your business operations and results through our core solutions and the highly specialised additional capabilities needed in healthcare transportation management.
Our Value to You:
- We help improve service levels and visibility
- We can reduce complexity and transportation costs
- We find cost effective transportation and help you manage your carriers
- We are your trusted advisor with extensive transportation expertise
- Our extensive, flexible carrier base covers all modes of transportation
- You access our cloud-based Transportation Management System (TMS)
- We offer buying power through leveraging our multi-client volumes
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What is carrier certification and why is it important?
Regulatory consistency and transportation quality are critical, ongoing concerns for healthcare clients. To mitigate your risk and increase quality, we qualify our third-party providers through the UPS Healthcare Carrier Certification Programme.
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How exactly do you verify third-party carriers?
To qualify a provider, we:
- Vet, certify and audit third-party providers to handle healthcare shipments, including temperature-sensitive and high-value carriers
- Audit and verify providers' stated service capabilities
- Ensure compliance with global regulatory standards, such as EUGDP, Canadian Guide 0069 and APAC PICS
- Require signed quality agreements and master service agreements to be in place with all carriers
- Classify providers into one of four certification tiers to ensure carrier selection matches the complexity of your supply chain requirements
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What tools will I use to view and manage my transportation management programme?
We offer a combination of tools that best suit your business needs. Transportation management customers can take advantage of our cloud-based Transportation Management System (TMS). Transport Management System (TMS) also works with UPS Supply Chain Symphony™, a single platform to access your UPS Healthcare transportation management and warehouse data. Contact your UPS account manager to learn more about these tools.
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