Expert logistic consulting & support

From our facilities to the point of care, we provide expert logistic consultation at every step of your product’s path to patients. Take a closer look at how we can support you with customs clearance, cold chain management, and more.

Logistics centre
Storing pharmaceutical goods
Global perspective

Optimizing your entire logistic chain

Injectable drug products follow a complex path to the patients and providers who need them – especially sensitive products with exacting storage requirements. We offer our expertise to you to plan, streamline, and de-risk your distribution process.

Our logistics experts are here to help you build a point-to-point plan that gives you full confidence in your product’s safety – whether you’re shipping a few hundred units of clinical trial material or millions of commercial doses.

Key capabilities

Where we focus our expertise

Import/export planning
Cold chain optimization
Shipping studies
Transport process validation
Track and Trace
Import/Export

Navigating multi-market customs clearance

No matter how your product arrives at a national border, clearing a drug substance or product through customs can be a complicated and time-consuming process. If your product is distributed in multiple markets – and needs to pass through many different import/export processes – expert guidance is essential.

Our logistics specialists have deep experience with national customs requirements around the world, including a wide variety of products arriving at borders by road, sea, and air. From your first clinical batches to your global market supply, we’re here to support successful clearance across your product’s life cycle.

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Cold chain management

Protecting temperature-sensitive products

If your product needs to stay refrigerated, our experts can work closely with you to identify the best way to store and ship your product and safeguard its stability. We’ve worked with a broad range of cooling-dependent therapies, and can help you explore a variety of options for establishing a cool chain.

If Vetter will be the first external team to handle your molecule, we also offer specialized consultation for temperature-sensitive API. We’ll start with a detailed assessment of your drug substance and container, and determine if they can be safely delivered and stored at our facilities.

Transport of sensible pharmaceutical substances
Shipping studies

Identifying optimal shipping modes for API

For your injectable molecule to safely leave the lab, you need a detailed understanding of many different stability, handling, and safety parameters – and how they can all be effectively managed in transit. Our API shipping specialists will help you define the best approach to protecting your precious drug substance.

Our logistics group has in-depth experience with a wide range of complex, sensitive parenteral molecules, and with helping them travel safely and successfully from lab to aseptic filling facility. Whether your product is liquid or powderized, we can help you design the studies you need to determine the most effective shipping method.

Storage of pharmaceutical goods
Transport validation

Mapping compliant transportation routes

Before release, regulators will want to know how the shipping process will affect your product. From storage conditions, to tamper risks, to environmental factors, we’ll help you study every single step you need to get your product to its destination without compromise.

Our logistics specialists can provide valuable support for your comprehensive shipping studies, helping you map your transport routes from start to finish and validate necessary safeguards before your product is dispatched.

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