Dedicated Warehousing
DHL Supply Chain offers a broad range of dedicated warehousing solutions, meeting life sciences and healthcare customer requirements and country specific regulations. DHL uses the benefits of a campus to share some services, such as quality, IT and security but designs the facility and processes to customers operational requirements. This reduces the customers investment in physical assets, reduces staffing costs and provides greater access to logistics best practice and continuous improvement opportunities. DHL has dedicated facilities for:
- medical devices (including implants and consumables)
- service parts logistics
- ethical pharmaceuticals
- biotechnology products
- OTC and generic medicines
- clinical trial materials.
Supply Chain
- Replenishment order
- Manufacture
- Inbound transport
- Receive and sort goods
- Storage of goods at dedicated warehouse
- Order preparation
- Despatch
Service Level Excellence
- Improved operational efficiencies through building on DHL logistics expertise
- Improved quality and regulatory compliance through dedicated processes designed to meet specific customer requirements
- Improved stock utilisation through postponed assembly and kitting activities to different country requirements
- Reduced risk of product wastage through disaster and contingency planning and controlled specialist storage zones
- Reduced costs through continuous improvement programmes and sharing best practice
- Reduced costs through access to shared functions (assembly, transport, quality) via campus operation
Product Specifics
DHL has pharma and medical device grade cGxP customised and validated facilities based on dedicated process flows. Facilities typically have:
- refrigerated (+2 to +8°C) and controlled ambient areas (+15 to +25°C)
- specialist storage zones (-20°C, -80°C, -150°C)
- controlled drugs vaults
- 24 hour security and environmental monitoring
- clean areas for assembly, kit building and labelling activities
- contingency and disaster recovery plans
- access to value-added services such as transport management and assembly
- bulk (pallet) and shelf locations to meet operational requirements.