From Clinical Trials to Commercialization: The Pharma-Healthcare Global Supply Chain

The Pharma & Healthcare global supply chain is an extensive and urgent one. As we’ve all seen from the Covid-19 vaccine response, the line from clinical trials to final delivery of medicines and drugs into the marketplace, connecting scientific labs, patients, manufacturing sites, distribution centers and ultimately, patients requires careful planning, coordination, and execution. Any misstep in temperature controls, delivery times, aviation and ground transportation and more can cause delays and even lives.

Of course, this vital supply chain existed before Covid – and it exists today outside of Covid, delivering myriad life-saving gene and cell therapies and drugs.

So what is required to maintain this global lifeline? What planning and strategy are needed for it to endure? How should various players communicate and coordinate – and how can we be best prepared when unexpected events call for immediate shifts in plans?

Helping to answer all of these questions —and more— are Robert Coyle, Senior Vice President of Pharma & Healthcare Strategy at Kuehne+Nagel and Scott Ohanesian, Senior VP Commercial Operations, Clinical Trial Logistics at QuickSTAT. Together, Rob and Scott’s collective expertise covers the entire end-to-end planning and execution of the process. That’s because in addition to QuickSTAT’s 24/7 logistics and transportation solutions, Kuehne+Nagel covers more than 1,300 locations in over 100 countries, delivering Sea, Air, Road, and Contract Logistics – with a clear focus on integrated logistics solutions.

One Quick ask before we begin our first of two episodes on the topic, this one addressing “Clinical Trials to Commercialization: The Pharma &Healthcare Global Supply Chain.” If this podcast inspires a question you might have for Rob or Scott, please reach out to them. Go to quick.aero/podcasts and click on the “Ask The Podcasters” link. And if you’d like a transcript of the conversation, you also can download a copy on this page as well. Or visit Kuehne+Nagel’s website at kuehne-nagel.com and search for “podcasts.”