Oct 14, 2016: During the recently concluded IATA AirPharma Conference 2016 at Brussels, Belgium, radical pharma-logistics collaboration initiative ‘TEAM-UP’ was announced.
Founder Alan Kennedy of TEAM-UP stressed the urgent need for greater integration of the pharma-logistics supply chain. Speaking at the IATA AirPharma Conference, Kennedy said, "With the huge challenges it is facing, the pharmaceutical logistics sector faces a very uncertain future unless it is prepared to abandon its traditional silo thinking and practices in favour of a more collaborative approach. The advent of the TEAM-UP integration framework will help accelerate the changes needed and open the doors to faster, more equitable, more systematic supply chain integration. There is no longer any excuse for inertia."
TEAM-UP is a pharma-logistics initiative expressly designed to inspire the mutual understanding, common procedures and universal climate of trust that are a prerequisite for the creation of sustainable, fully-integrated supply chains.
Modelled around proven supply chain models from other sectors, TEAM-UP has been conceived as a hands-on, interactive community with all corporate participants committed to following agreed collaborative principles, all committed to a programme of continuous collaborative improvement and all having access to a shared repository of collaborative tools, templates and advice.
By creating the necessary environment, and providing the leadership needed, to make true win-win integration a practical reality, TEAM-UP will contribute to improved corporate efficiencies, better overall sector performance and, ultimately, to enhanced patient/user safety.
TEAM-UP is a completely independent best-practice body. It is not financed by, nor does it represent the interests of any vested-interest or third-party group. It is being established as a legally-constituted not-for-profit organisation run by, and for, the sole benefit of its participants. This is its guarantee that it represents the interests of all pharma-logistics stakeholders.