Pharmaceutical Logistics

Dedicated temperature loggers for each cool box provide temperature fluctuation data during transportation

We offer pharmaceutical transportation services according to the cargo type and controlled temperature zone of the products. Since 2015, we have been offering a refrigerated pharmaceutical transportation service using refrigerant and vacuum-insulated boxes, and provide temperature fluctuation data for each transportation by packaging a dedicated temperature logger in each box.

Realization of White Logistics by Establishment of Hokkaido Center

We established a new Hokkaido base for a customer who handles goods at two bases in the Eastern and Western regions of Japan. By delivering from the Hokkaido base, transport time has been reduced by one day compared to that from the Kanto region. As a result, the tight schedule of having the consignment company pick up the shipment received in the morning on the same day at noon, but we were able to change the schedule to pick it up the next day.

This has enabled us to contact the consignment company well in advance and to reduce long-distance transportation between bases, thereby realizing white logistics and contributing to our customers' BCP*1 measures.

*1 BCP (Business Continuity Plan) is a plan to minimize damage to business assets and enable the continuation or early recovery of core business operations in an emergency situation such as a natural disaster

Not only for product storage, but also for distribution processing such as enclosing package inserts and attaching legal labels

Tsukuba Pharmaceutical Distribution Center is licensed as a manufacturer (in vitro diagnostics agents and medical devices). With the manufacturing license, the center can handle not only product storage, but also distribution processing operations such as assembling products into sets, enclosing package inserts, and affixing Japanese-language labels.

Pharmacists are on staff at the center to conduct product testing and determine whether products are ready to be shipped from the manufacturing facility, and work with manufacturers and distributors to shorten lead times until shipment.

The center is also licensed as a wholesaler, which reduces the hassle of preparing applications and dealing with the health authorities for shippers and allows for a speedy response.