Ups launches new tech-enabled healthcare solutions, standardizes quality systems, forms healthcare unit

Ups announced further service enhancements for existing and new healthcare and life science customers. ups will offer a new portfolio of tech-enabled sensing and monitoring solutions to help with the highest-quality visibility, tracking and management options for critical healthcare shipments. in addition, all ups healthcare operations will align under a innovative, technology-driven quality management and certification system to help meet high-quality operating standards and to simplify performance verification. to accomplish this, ups is forming a dedicated healthcare and life sciences (hcls) unit. the ups premier product line will provide differentiated levels of service for healthcare customers. it will leverage ups’s smart global logistics network package tracking capabilities, combined with new, next-generation, on-package sensor technology to enable priority flow paths, sortation, contingency actions and delivery services for critical healthcare shipments. this new portfolio will provide ups’s most comprehensive priority-handling services for chain of custody, time-dependent and temperature-sensitive packages to help increase on-time reliability. this solution is part of an expansive effort ups is undertaking to retrofit ups’s facility network with smart, iot systems to track healthcare packages. these technology-enabled solutions are scheduled to come online first quarter 2020. healthcare customers rely on best-in-class ups quality management systems for storage, inventory management and distribution of healthcare products, particularly those which are subject to current good manufacturing practices (cgmp). the ups quality management system has been re-designed to reflect systems that exist at many pharmaceutical companies. the qms features a cloud-based electronic document management system, global standard operating procedures (sops), best-in-class validation processes and global reporting tools.
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