Cold Chain Pharma - how a professional weather service can help logistics and save money
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Maintaining a safe, high quality, uninterrupted supply of medicines is a vital concern for the pharmaceutical industry. Timing is only a part of what must be considered when transporting pharmaceuticals. Each year, an estimated 80 to 130 million climate sensitive shipments occur worldwide, amounting to $225 billion. These shipments of temperature controlled pharmaceuticals require an intact cold shame from start to finish each year, a broken cold chain can lead to damaged and degraded medicines. 20% of climate sensitive pharmaceuticals are damaged and 25% of vaccines arrived degraded because of incorrect shipping logistics. In fact, 30% of all scrapped pharmaceuticals can be attributed to logistics issues. This adds up to over $15 billion in pharmaceutical product losses annually due to temperature excursion alone. This does not include the costs associated with product replacement or labor. However, there is a solution. Storm geo and modality Solutions air taking a disruptive approach to reducing the occurrence of losses due to temperature excursions by developing a planning tool to allow logistics managers to identify risks and manage the cost of packaging, warehousing and shipping. The weather risk assessment dashboard evaluates the weather at origin and destination locations, the time in transit and the thermal packaging options to deliver Ah hi medium or low risk rating of thermal excursion. By analyzing multiple scenarios, you can make better business decisions based on calculated risks and costs. Here's a quick look at the weather Risk assessment Portal and dashboard after logging in the default page shows all the locations in a breakdown of each forecast. For each forecast type, there's the 24 hour box forecast for the expanded polystyrene and the 48 hour box for polyurethane. The forecast for the week is blocked out day by day, with each location indicating high, medium or low risk. That's the red, yellow and green hella rings. It's an easy way to see the whole week laid out by risk. San Antonio, as an example, is green or low risk throughout the forecast period. But if we scroll up to Minneapolis ST Paul, which indicates periods of red, yellow and green click reveals not only a closer look at the time periods, but the high risk feature that is triggering the red. A quick scroll down shows the time periods for yellow no green throughout the seven day forecast. Also, no other criteria is being triggered throughout the seven day forecast on the daily briefing tab. 24 hour box for E. P s and the 48 hour box for polyurethane are visible. We'll click the polyurethane box for the seven day threat forecast laid out in three hour blocks. There's a good amount of green, but also a lot of yellow and some red. The forecast dropdown shows the forecast in tab or graphical form. Here's the tab forecast for Atlanta showing some yellow or medium risk on Tuesday beginning late Monday evening. Taking a look at the graph forecast, It's easy to look at the forecast from the current time on the left, extending to the right through the forecast period. You can change the forecast period by clicking one day, three days or seven days here on the right side, there's a lot of information on this portal, but it has been created with ease of use in mind, as well as the ability to see the most critical information across a broad region either coast to coast or something more regionalized. Whatever the user prefers