Total Transportation Management
Whether you need to manage a complete portfolio of studies or require support for the conduct of standalone multi-regional clinical trials, Thermo Fisher Scientific provides overarching insight and management of your supply chain transportation needs.
We provide a unique and innovative service for clients seeking to partner with an experienced logistics provider for distribution, courier, import and customs decisions across a single trial or a portfolio of trials.
Our Total Transportation Management service helps sponsors manage the complex supply chain processes required to move manufacturing API, IMP, comparator medication and ancillaries through to commercial goods, both internationally and within country of destination.
Optimizing your transportation budget against your supply needs is challenging work! To simplify and account for associated risk, it takes a team. Sponsors can leverage our logistics expertise, experience across a broad range of shipments, insight into courier performance by region/lane/route and our teams of in-country experts.
Capabilities & Benefits
Whether you need to manage a complete portfolio of studies or require support for the conduct of standalone multi-regional clinical trials, we provide overarching insight and management of your supply chain transportation needs.
Our Total Transportation Management service includes:
Capabilities |
Benefits |
| Supplier qualification |
Reviews suppliers against stringent quality and performance standards before accepting them as a service provider |
| Mode optimization—courier selection & management |
Recommends the best transportation approach for your goals, saving you and your team time |
| Customs & regulatory guidance & facilitation |
Eliminates confusion regarding regulatory requirements, and mitigates risk of costly customs delays that might impact your product |
| Cold Chain supplies management including the reusable shipper program |
Protects your materials against costly excursions, and provides a convenient environmentally-friendly shipper return service |
| Dispatch services |
Coordinates all aspects of scheduling, and assures required documentation is fully complete |
| Proactive Track & Trace |
Provides 24/5 telephone and email support for anyone requiring assistance with a shipment |
| Data Objective Monitoring & Reporting of all Shipments |
Enables fact-based decision making approach by providing objective data |
| Consolidated Billing |
Decreases the administrative burden of having to manage countless supplier-specific invoices |
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Whether you need to manage a complete portfolio of studies or require support for the conduct of standalone multi-regional clinical trials, Thermo Fisher Scientific provides overarching insight and management of your supply chain transportation needs. Contact us to discuss how we can help you with your clinical trial.
