In the healthcare industry, specifically in healthcare shipping and compliance, you know that a large part of the story behind optimal outcomes is getting the right product into the right hands—surgeon, pathologist, pharmacist, or supply room—safely, swiftly, reliably, compliantly. Any disruption can adversely impact patient health, your reputation, and your bottom line.
Minimize transit risks by relying on our healthcare-optimized global transportation network, deep regulatory experience, and end-to-end oversight to ensure yours is a success story.
Healthcare firms that ship globally, with strict time, product, and security requirements. Relevant across pharmaceutical, life science, medical device, med-surg supplies, diagnostic, and research labs.
With supply chain costs comprising 50-60% of a typical healthcare company's expenditures, creating transportation efficiencies can reduce costs while improving quality and availability.
Whether package or freight, air, ocean or ground, we provide an incredibly broad range of options to help achieve your optimal balance of speed and cost. Reduce the risk and cost of waste, delays, and penalties with our robust product protection technology, regulatory expertise, and strategies for crossing borders.
Rely on our expansive global transportation network and flexible options to get your critical shipments exactly where they're needed, exactly when they're needed. When time is of the essence, UPS offers more express services and guaranteed on-time delivery to more locations than any other carrier in the world.
Did you know switching from air to ocean can save up to 70-80% in supply chain costs? When reducing costs leads your objectives, we'll help you develop a multi-modal strategy that increases your margins, while ensuring reliability and product integrity.
We provide a wide range of domestic and international solutions to meet your critical shipment challenges. Choose from a variety of UPS express services that offer day- and time-definite delivery, as well as value-added services for additional security.
Especially for labs and CROs, on-time delivery is a key differentiator. With UPS monitoring technology, it's easy to track shipment status from pickup to delivery. Or you can choose to have our logistics experts monitor critical shipments, predict package delays and intervene to get your materials to their destination on time.
One of the biggest challenges for healthcare companies is protecting products and biologics through a complex transportation cycle. UPS offers a portfolio of cold chain solutions that protect temperature-sensitive products, combining specialized packaging, refrigerated trucks, and cryogenic shipping containers for air and ocean.
To assure regulatory compliance, we provide package-level monitoring technology that provides 24/7 visibility and documents temperatures as well as shelf life against profiles throughout transit and storage cycles. And to minimize risk, we can implement contingency plans to protect from temperature excursions.
The time and resources required to keep up with and address changing product safety regulatory requirements can cost millions. Our healthcare experts have the global regulatory expertise to help you remain compliant, realize greater efficiency, and find new global opportunities. We also have rigorous chain of custody processes and technology in place in our global network of healthcare-compliant warehouses.
With our extensive shipping lanes, services and technology, and a global network of 400,000 people across 220 countries, we're here to help you deliver.
Get more information about U.S. and international guaranteed delivery and freight services, based on shipment destination.
With four flexible service options, get precisely what your temperature-critical shipments need from door to door, across the globe.
UPS tracking solutions show the progress of your shipment every step of the way, across town or around the world.
Remarkable services that go beyond shipping and tracking to help you expand your business.
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