Over the duration of the COVID pandemic, issues in the pharmaceutical and healthcare supply chains have changed, creating a new emphasis on resilience.
Did you know that approximately 50% of leaders consider service exclusivity to be a serious vulnerability?
Recent research shows that in order to prevent ongoing disruption, leaders must prioritise supply chain flexibility, stability, and reliability rather than sole sourcing as a cost-saving strategy.
In the wake of a pandemic, creating an effective supply chain will require your logistics to overcome the following challenges.
Carriers cannot increase the necessary freight capacity due to a significant driver shortage, yet a staffing issue exists throughout the entire retail industry. You may overcome this challenge by using routing software to optimise your fleet by increasing the delivery capacity. Existing Descartes customers have increased delivery capacity by 35% without adding vehicles or drivers.
It might be difficult to reduce costs throughout your supply chains. However, when you adopt the correct solutions, cost reduction is feasible at every step of the supply chain, including last-mile delivery, warehouse management, transportation management, and more.
Creating visibility within your blockchain is a challenge. Selecting the right end-to-end visibility solutions will give retailers and distributors a thorough understanding of the product delivery process from purchase orders to warehouse receipts.
Your supply chains may find it challenging to handle any issues proactively rather than reactively. Analytics powered by data and artificial intelligence hold the key to the problem. With the right software, you can predict results, enabling in-the-moment decision-making and the early detection of potential issues before they cause shipments to be delayed.
For Pharmacies and Healthcare companies delivering to the consumer, delivering the right drug product to the right person or location at the right time is important vital as life may depend on receiving the correct delivery.
Any mistakes could have serious repercussions in terms of reputation, lives and costs.
The last mile of delivery is often the most complicated and can also be the most expensive mile within the logistics supply chain.
This is where a routing and scheduling optimisation solution can help pharmacies and healthcare. As orders are received the system considers the available vehicle and drivers, continuously optimising the deliveries and routes between vehicles to ensure the most advantageous solution delivery options are obtained.
The system takes into account, vehicle capacities, the number of drivers and the times they can drive, traffic flows and routes or priority deliveries, as well as whether specialist delivery services are required for the drugs such as refrigerated storage.
Scheduling and routing the deliveries automatically reduces the time involved with route planning between pharmacies or residential deliveries and leaves planners to deal with exceptions or special deliveries.
Learn how you can turn your last-mile delivery into an advantage.
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