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Zarksis Munshi of Dachser, Roland Weil of Frankfurt Airport, Fabrice Panza of Etihad, Pratyush Kumar of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals,
Dimple Parikh of Lupin and Javin Bhinde of SynCore Consulting.
He pointed out how the International
Air Transport Association’s (IATA) The
Center of Excellence for Independent
Validators (CEIV) for Pharma helped
airports and airlines activate these
compliances and opined that it is high
time for other partners to also embrace
the same.
Logistics regulatory compliance
became an important topic of discussion
across the business sessions during
the event and particularly after the
presentation by Rishi Agrawal, co-
founder and CEO of TeamLease Regtech.
“Avoid drifting away to the wrong side of
the law,” he cautioned the attendees.
“A single entity, single corporate office
Libin Chacko Kurian of ITLN, Probal Kushari of Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, and single factory Indian pharmaceutical
Santosh Upadhyay of Chiron Behring Vaccines, Dr Sunil Khetarpal of AHPI, Sanjay Sharma of company deals with 998 compliances
Coldman Logistics and Ravi Kumar Tummalapalli of va-Q-tec.
in a year. If it has five plants, it will deal
“India produces pharmaceutical transportation and warehouse partners with 5,500 compliances depending on
products like APIs, intermediates, have not upgraded themselves to the the specific nature of operations. And if
formulations, biosimilars and level which is required as per these it's a large pharma company with 10 or
surgicals. All these different products compliances. Meanwhile, he also more plants, the number of compliances
have different compliances and pointed out the increase in demand for and obligations range between 10 and
distribution requirements. pharma products that have frozen and 20 thousand depending on the specifics.
The United States, Europe and cold chain requirements. Such a company deals with 85 unique
Japan are the most important export He added, “Regarding compliances, acts and rules with 58 central and
markets from Indian pharmaceuticals fortunately, airlines have done it, 27 state-based rules and 70 unique
and these are some of the most airports have done it worldwide. But licences,” he said.
regulated markets in the world where unfortunately, our transport and Pratyush Kumar, senior general
compliances are necessary even warehouse partners in India are still not manager, demand planning & logistics
for transporting simple packages,” acute with the knowledge nor with the excellence, Glenmark Pharmaceuticals,
he said. According to him, still equipment requirements.” took an example of his conversation with
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