Healthcare

Imbed Biosciences, Medline, and other healthcare innovators will join the program at the 2025 NextGen Supply Chain Conference to showcase AI, automation, and digital transformation in supply chains.

The company is focusing on cold storage, temperature-controlled delivery, and faster service worldwide.

UPS said bringing Frigo-Trans and BPL into the fold will boost the company's end-to-end capabilities throughout Europe for UPS Healthcare customers who increasingly require temperature-sensitive and time-critical logistics.

Healthcare firm bests the field in annual Gartner Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 rankings.

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TForce Logistics officials said that the division’s Medical Logistics technology platforms support on-line order entry, provide real-time visibility to order status, ensure efficient scheduling and routing, and provide visibility to digital delivery confirmation records.

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Atlanta-based global transportation and logistics titan UPS said today that it has rolled out various facility expansions for its healthcare-dedicated warehouse and distribution market in various global markets.

Atlanta-based transportation and logistics titan UPS said this week that it is making further inroads to its healthcare-dedicated warehouse and distribution network, in the form of the addition of 1.3 million square-feet (MSF) of United States-based distribution space, as well as receiving the European Union’s Good Distribution Practice (GDP) compliance certification for France- and Germany-based healthcare operations.

In a move geared towards expanding its new services and technologies to support high-growth sectors like life sciences healthcare logistics, express delivery and logistics services provider DHL said this week that its DHL Global Forwarding group is taking several steps in that direction through some significant changes it has made at its 434,000 square-foot O’Hare airport facility in Chicago.

According to the report, UPS is currently preparing to test a U.S. services in which it will dispatch nurses to vaccinate adults in their homes (it was not stated what vaccines would be used), at a time when UPS and its healthcare clients are making efforts to quell cost pressures, as well as competitive threats from Amazon. And the report added that global pharmaceutical player Merck & Co indicated it is “looking at partnering” with UPS for this service.

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UPS said this week it has opened up a new, 76,000 square-foot, Bogtota, Colombia-based healthcare facility, which is geared towards helping pharmaceutical, biopharma, and medical device companies with their global supply chains for expansion into and intra-transport and export from Latin America.

UPS said late last month it officially completed its acquisition of Marken, a provider of global supply chain solutions for the life sciences industry based in Durham, NC and London, England. The acquisition was originally announced by UPS in early November, coming a little more than three months after saying it had expanded logistics capabilities for clinical trials. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

A little more than three months after saying it has expanded logistics capabilities for clinical trials, UPS said this week it is taking an even deeper dive into the healthcare vertical, announcing it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Marken, a provider of global supply chain solutions for the life sciences industry based in Durham, NC and London, England.