More and more pharmaceutical companies are targeting postponement solutions for its distribution.

Indeed, postponement offers the pharmaceutical industry many advantages. Particularly for pharmaceutical companies that are active throughout Europe, this logistics service is an option for warehousing and distributing their products in an economical way. Storage is normally in a centrally located site. The just-in-time final packaging and related specification reduces the number of packaging variants that need to be warehoused, for this reason: The logistics service provider does not provide the country-specific packaging until there is actually a demand for it. The available storage capacity can be used in a more efficient manner, and excess or insufficient inventory of different packaging variations for the individual countries can be avoided. The decisive advantage for the manufacturer comes from the increased flexibility that ultimately allows the manufacturer to preserve or even improve the reliability of supplies with significantly lower inventory.

For production at the manufacturer’s, this also means that only one neutral primary package is prepared instead of 10 to 20 country-specific packages. Thus, the manufacturer achieves a larger production volume and can take deliberate advantage of the economies of scale.