What is New? UPS Healthcare has launched UPS® Pickup Point locations for laboratory customers across key European healthcare markets including the U.K., Germany, Italy, France and Spain.
Why It Matters: The new UPS Pickup Point locations, combined with the expanded UPS Premier capability, enhance reliability and control over shipments, which are critical for time- and temperature-sensitive healthcare shipments.
The push for rapid clinical trials and new medicine development, combined with the growth of decentralised and virtual trials, is making clinical laboratory logistics more complex than ever. To add to the challenge, healthcare facilities are complex, with time-sensitive samples coming in from various clinical units, often across wide campuses working to different schedules.
Unique among logistics providers in Europe, UPS Pickup Point locations create a ‘many-to-one’ reverse logistics solution that establishes pickup confirmation and visibility of time-sensitive specimens. This reduces complexity for diagnostic laboratories by decreasing the number of collection sites, improving reliability, control and streamlining their shipment of samples to a central lab.
Working with the recently expanded UPS Premier capability, UPS Pickup Point locations mark another step in ongoing service and technology expansions to meet the evolving needs of critical time- and temperature-sensitive healthcare shippers.
‘As we tackle global healthcare challenges and the needs of individual patients, every specimen counts. Connected to our global network, UPS Pickup Point locations provide our customers with unique new solutions to manage the reverse logistics of getting specimens to labs’, stated John Bolla, President of UPS Healthcare. ‘Our customers continue to trust UPS Healthcare to manage their complex logistics needs so they can focus on what they do best.’
UPS Healthcare is building a pan-European cold chain network that works with a globally connected, tech-enabled network. By the end of 2023, the business will have more than doubled the footprint of its dedicated healthcare facilities since 2020, offering customers access to faster shipping times and greater production flexibility.
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About UPS Healthcare
UPS Healthcare delivers unparalleled healthcare logistics expertise to its customers around the world. UPS Healthcare has 16+ million square feet of cGMP and GDP-compliant healthcare distribution space globally. Its services include inventory management, cold chain packaging and shipping, storage and fulfilment of medical devices, and lab and clinical trial logistics. UPS Healthcare's global infrastructure, its UPS® Premier visibility service, its track and trace technology, and its global quality system are well-suited to meeting today's complex logistics demands for the pharmaceutical, medical device, and laboratory diagnostic industries.
