Pharmaceutical logistics is the specialised management of storage, handling, and transport of medicines and biologics under strict regulatory and environmental controls. It enforces cold-chain integrity, serialisation, and chain-of-custody to preserve product efficacy and prevent counterfeiting or diversion. The discipline combines temperature-controlled distribution with traceability and compliance reporting across the supply chain.
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- The field maintains validated cold chains, continuous temperature and humidity monitoring, and tamper-evident packaging, with serialisation enabling unit-level traceability for anti-counterfeiting and recall. Good Distribution Practice and track-and-trace mandates drive heavy use of IoT sensors and data systems, while route and inventory optimisation reduce spoilage and stockouts of time- and temperature-sensitive products.