November 11, 2013
Logista Pharma, Logista Group’s company specializing in pharmaceutical products’ logistics and distribution, has organized events in Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon, gathering over 140 Technical, Quality and Logistics managers from 90 manufacturers.
The company has analyzed in detail the consequences of the European guidelines, already in force, establishing and regulating the new requirements related to GDPs (Good Distribution Practices) and the solutions to implement, taking into account the operating processes specific to each transport solution.
It must also be remembered that the recent RD 782/2013 on distribution of medicines for human use, in force since October 20th, requires to comply with these good distribution practices.
Magda Martinez, Logista Pharma’s Transportation Technical Manager, an essential role in ensuring the industry with a quality transportation, reminded attendees that the guidelines impose the distribution activity with significant responsibilities throughout the supply chain, both to wholesalers and to laboratories whether directly distributing or by outsourcing.
Thus, medicines distributors must guarantee that they and the companies they eventually outsource any related activity to, such as transportation, comply with Good Distribution Practices principles and guidelines.
Magda Martinez underlined that the distributing agent takes responsibility that its products’ transportation, whether owned or outsourced, complies with an audited quality system extending throughout the transportation stage, including any vehicles and transit warehouses.
The system must assure and demonstrate the shipping’s traceability and temperature conditions by performing thermal mapping, temperature control and monitoring, records, graphs, and alarm systems, etc, and include plans covering training, qualifications, validations, risks management, calibrations, cleaning, documentary, self-inspections, etc.
Logista Pharma provides specialized logistics and distribution services of pharmaceutical products and has a solid experience in distributing to hospitals, pharmacies and wholesalers, adding value to clients across every stage of the supply chain.
Logista Pharma is the undisputed leader in pharmaceutical distribution to hospitals and first care centers, adding its growing presence in distribution to pharmacies.
Logista Pharma has 6 logistics platforms in Spain and Portugal providing the most comprehensive pharmaceutical distribution service in Spain and Portugal, including Ballearic Islands and Canary Islands, where it also has a premise specifically dedicated to this activity. This cutting-edge infrastructure network puts at the service of both Logista Pharma and its clients' activities a warehousing area of over 70,000m2 at controlled temperature (15ºC-25ºC) and over 3,000 palets capacity at refrigerated temperature (2º-8º).
This commitment to quality extends to transportation of pharmaceutical products. To this end, Logista Pharma leans on Logista Group’s transport companies: Integra2, industrial transport company at ambient and controlled temperature specialized in the pharmaceutical industry; Nacex, the parcel and express courier firm and Logesta, specialized company for long distance and full truck load transportation management.
They all are part of Logista Group, assuring full operating integration, the highest quality standards and the use of cutting-edge information systems for transport and distribution of pharmaceutical products in Spain and Portugal.
Logista Group is a leading logistics group broadly present in Europe offering an integrated, specialized and high quality logistics service. Its cutting-edge information management systems allow to guarantee complete product traceability and operating control. Logista manages one of the most extensive, specialized and technologically advanced logistics network of infrastructures and transport in Southern Europe.