International Clinical Distribution and Cold Chain Management Services

Creapharm can help you in managing the distribution of you clinical trials distribution and cold chain management services worldwide thanks to its international network of local logistic partners. Creapharm will set-up a logistic solution adapted to your study design. Creapharm will provide you with logistic management from the distribution (done on customer’s order) till the returns management.

Creapharm can propose you 3 basic clinical distribution options to consider (with possible combination of the 3):

– Common cold chain carriers
– Express carriers
– Point to point cold chain deliveries

Your choice concerning your clinical trial distribution mode will have to be based on several parameters:

– The countries of destination (the infrastructure level of development, the customs and the shipments’ routes)
– The product characteristics (the rarity and the value of the clinical materials as well as the avaibility of the stability data and excursion tolerances)
– The clinical trial protocol design (constraints of the clinical protocol and patients’ recruitment).

In case your clinical trial project requires the use of Creapharm partners ‘depots’ network you will be provided the following advantages in terms of:

– Timing: project set up, transfers from hub to depots, shipments from local depots to sites, local returns management and reconciliation, local destruction.
– Price: Negotiated depots’ prices.
– Quality: Follow-up of depots’ activities, management of main bulk stocks available for several studies for different depots and countries, Creapharm’ s quality insurance (Audit and Quality Agreement of depots).

Creapharm has qualified cold chain distribution solutions for your European and worldwide projects and can also provide you with high volume storage capacity for both positive (+2°C/+8°C) and negative (-20°C/-80°C) cold temperature sensitive products.

For more information or to discuss international clinical distribution and cold chain management services please contact us directly.