Technical area: Storage and distribution

Model guidance for the storage and transport of time- and temperature- sensative pharmaceutical products

These WHO guidelines set out the principal requirements for the safe storage and distribution of time and temperature-sensative pharmaceutical products (TTSPPs). The target audience includes regulators, logisticians, and pharmaceutical professionals in industry, government, and international agencies. WHO Technical Report Series, No.961, 2011, Annex 9... Read more

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Taking it to the Road and Sea: New Freight Options Can Help Move Money to HIV/AIDS Treatment

This January 2010 technical brief explains how SCMS has worked with clients to develop forecasts and demand plans for commodities for switching appropriate shipments from air freight to sea and/or road and avoid periods of peak shipping prices, reducing costs by as much as 90 percent.... Read more

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Freight Forwarding: Leveraging industry best practices for supply chain efficiencies

This March 2010 technical brief discusses how managing a supply chain that serves multiple developing countries with commodities from worldwide sources presents considerable challenges, from operating in a resource-limited infrastructure to overcoming high-risk conditions—particularly when the products being moved are high-value pharmaceuticals or require temperature control.... Read more

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Delivery Team Topping Up: Bringing About Reliable Distribution in Difficult Environments

In response to the variety of disruptive forces that make operation of normal public sector systems impossible within countries, the “Delivery Team Topping Up” (DTTU) system, was adopted to ensure the availability of condoms for the prevention of HIV and AIDS and of contraceptives in Zimbabwe.... Read more

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Barcoding: Modernizing Warehouses to Lighten the Workload

Until recently, Pakistan’s Central Warehouse, which provides contraceptive supplies to the entire country, followed labor-intensive manual processes for all its transactions. This case study looks at how a new automated warehouse management system is changing this and eliminating many of the problems that can arise from tracking commodities by hand.... Read more

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