What's New? UPS Healthcare has expanded its reverse logistics and UPS® Premier services across Europe. Key European markets, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and Austria, now benefit from enhanced UPS Pickup Point locations. Additionally, the UPS Premier Platinum service is now available throughout Europe, offering advanced shipment monitoring capabilities.
Why It Matters: This expansion addresses the growing demand for precision healthcare logistics, offering healthcare companies more efficient and reliable specimen logistics processes. These enhancements enable businesses to extend their market reach and provide peace of mind with near real-time shipment visibility.
In today's fast-paced healthcare environment, logistics play a crucial role in ensuring the delivery of critical medical shipments. With the recent expansion of UPS Healthcare's services, healthcare companies can now experience increased efficiency and reliability in their logistics processes.
Expanded UPS Pickup Point Locations: Designed to simplify specimen logistics, these new locations serve as convenient connection points between collection sites and central laboratories. This advancement offers healthcare providers more efficient specimen pickup options, enhancing the reliability and control of sample shipments.
Introduction of UPS Premier Platinum: UPS Premier Platinum offers advanced real-time tracking and monitoring with temperature, light, and humidity indicators for shipments both within and outside the UPS network. This near real-time visibility allows for swift recovery if packages face network delays, temperature deviations, or other issues. As our most robust tracking and temperature monitoring service, customers benefit from an easy activation process, control tower monitoring, and package intervention, all within one scalable service offering.
"As the demand for precision healthcare logistics grows, we’re investing in leading solutions to ensure we can simplify our customers’ supply chains so they can focus on what they do best. Every shipment counts, and we can provide the quality, time, and temperature management needed to keep healthcare logistics moving seamlessly," said Felipe Morgulis, UPS Healthcare President for Europe and LATAM.
The increasing complexity of laboratory logistics due to rapid clinical trials and innovations in biologics and specialty pharmaceuticals underscores the need for specialized healthcare logistics providers. UPS Healthcare's expanded capabilities offer a pan-European cold chain network, seamlessly integrating with a globally connected, technology-enabled system.
Both UPS® Pickup Point and UPS® Premier Platinum mark significant steps in ongoing service and technology expansions to meet the evolving needs of critical time- and temperature-sensitive healthcare shippers.
About UPS Healthcare
UPS Healthcare delivers unparalleled healthcare logistics expertise to its customers around the world. UPS Healthcare has 17.2+ million square feet of cGMP and GDP-compliant healthcare distribution space globally. Services include inventory management, cold chain packaging and shipping, storage and fulfillment 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 meet today's complex logistics demands for the pharmaceutical, medical device, and laboratory diagnostic industries.
