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From (left to right) Yashpal
Sharma, Skyways Group, Manoj
Singh, Mumbai International
Airport, Roland Weil, Frankfurt
Airport, Burak Omeroglu,
Turkish Cargo, Pramod
Patvardhan, GSK, Tushar
Jani, Cargo Service Center,
Abhishek Thakur, Odyssey
Logistics, Pratyush Kumar,
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals
and Reji John, Indian Transport
& Logistics News.
want our shipments to wait at
transshipment points or at airports.
That waiting time has to be minimized,
or reduced altogether. During the
transshipment or during changing of
the flights, the handling of pharma
cargo is a pain point, although
improvements are there.”
The second panel ‘Supply Chain
Therapy: Identifying Pain Points in
Pharma Logistics’ touched upon
regulations, the new logistics policy,
trucking, bio-contamination, planning,
and the import pains faced by the
pharma industry. Blockchain as a
solution for multiple data entries and
for documentation into multiple systems
extremely important and much cheaper was discussed by panelists.
than the claims, disputes, and the time Speaking about the pain points of
that is eventually spent on resolving the CRO CDMO industry or the contract
issues. We as an organization spent a lot research organization and contract
of effort in training our people right from development and manufacturing sector,
commercials to warehouse teams. This Chandan Shirbhayye, AVP & Head of
is because many times the mistakes Supply Chain, Aragen Life Sciences
start with the commercial team rather said, “CRO CDMO industry operates at
than the handling teams, because they the lab scale and to a plant scale but
don’t look at the documentation right, for the pre-clinical requirements. This
or do the checklist right, and eventually means that they are not typical bulk
it gets passed on in an inappropriate shipments or container loads. So if I
manner to the handling team. Since am importing a 5grams of HSM code
the handling team is unaware of the (product) which is restricted or under
product, the packaging, temperature Training is extremely controlled circumstances, not having
requirements, they end up doing important and much an exemption or a faster route to do
something wrong. So you need to have cheaper than the claims, it always derails the whole process.
end-to-end training.” disputes, and the time Further, we come much before the
Talking about the pain point that is eventually spent commercial manufacturing or launch
of speed while handling pharma of that product and at the stage of
shipments at transit hubs, Pratyush on resolving issues. discovery in the lab. And at such a time
Kumar, GM, Demand planning and Yashpal Sharma if you are unable to serve them(clients),
Logistics excellence, Glenmark Skyways Group then they move on. One pain point is
Pharmaceuticals said, “We don't how we can have harmonization of
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