Geis Group reorganizes its pharmaceutical logistics division

The internationally active Geis Group has completely restructured its logistics services for the pharmaceutical industry. At the Nuremberg location, Geis Eurocargo GmbH has built a new fleet of refrigerated vehicles in recent months, implemented a special IT solution, and extensively modernized and certified the pharmaceutical handling area.

(“In the healthcare sector, it’s about handling highly sensitive pharmaceutical products,” explains Patrick Ortner, Head of Service Logistics at Geis Eurocargo Nuremberg. “This requires the highest level of flexibility, cleanliness, and quality.” Among other things, a temperature range of 5 to 35 degrees Celsius must be strictly maintained along the entire supply chain and documented for each individual shipment.

Handling facility fundamentally modernized

To optimally meet these requirements, Geis has fundamentally modernized the handling facility used exclusively for healthcare services and equipped it with temperature sensors, among other things. Subsequently, the handling, transport, and interim storage of pharmaceutical products were certified according to the Good Distribution Practice (GDP) guidelines of the European Commission. “This ensures consistent quality management,” says Patrick Ortner.

In addition, Geis implemented a special IT system for seamless documentation of temperature data from pickup to delivery to recipients and expanded its own healthcare fleet by nine refrigerated vehicles with lift gates.

Thus, the team at Geis Eurocargo distributes medical products safely and reliably to recipients. “We serve hospitals and pharmacies as well as private recipients within a radius of about 250 kilometers around Nuremberg,” explains Patrick Ortner. “Our all-inclusive package also includes station deliveries in hospitals, shelf service, and returns management.”

New service has started well

The new service has already started well. “Thanks to the extensive preparations of our team, the go-live went absolutely smoothly,” says Branch Manager Christian Philipp. “We are ready to convince new customers from the healthcare sector of our expanded pharmaceutical services.”

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