Lean Logistics for Vaccines
Relevance
Packaging qualification is a critical element of pharmaceutical quality and patient safety, ensuring medicinal products remain protected throughout storage, handling, and distribution. As supply chains become more global and complex, life sciences organisations face growing pressure to accelerate time-to-market, control costs, and improve efficiency while maintaining regulatory compliance. Yet current qualification practices often involve significant duplication of effort, with pharmaceutical companies repeating activities already performed by qualified packaging suppliers, while valuable supplier-generated performance and transport data remains underutilised due to concerns around standardisation, traceability, and regulatory acceptance.
GOAL
Project Objectives
Through this project, Pharma.Aero wanted to share the innovative Covid-19 vaccines distribution strategy “Lean Logistics for Vaccines” developed in Uruguay.
Timeline
June - August
Preliminary Research & Industry Insights
July - September
October
Framework Development & Qualification Mapping
Industry Opinion Paper Publication
PROJECT
SUPPORT AND
COLLABORATION.
- Pharma.Aero Board liaison and project lead: Montevideo Free Airport (now LACC: Latin America Cargo City)
- Project members: 10 members respondents to the survey
- Project expert: Marcel Barceló (external consultant)
- Projet manager: Raúl Bianchi (external consultant)
