b'Partner News Spring 2024 27Corporateenabling an increasingly accurate digital twin to be used in the planning of future shipments. It is not enough just to select and move healthcare shipments along the most optimal transportation route; product integrity must be preserved at all times. Once again technology provides a solution.All of Kuehne+Nagels critical healthcare shipments are managed by HyperCare teams who use IoT sensors to track shipment location and temperature around the clock, every day of the year, and can intervene at the first sign of deviation from the expected plan, whether this be a flight delay, unexpected temperature Building resilient healthcarechange, or simply a traffic jam. Customisable dashboards give customers full visibility of their shipments.supply chains: the critical roleIn the event that something unforeseen does occur during transit and a detailed of information technology CAPA (corrective action preventive action) plan is required, it is possible to digitally reconstruct the shipment in order to identify the precise location, prevailing weather conditions, and time of, for example, a By Jon Chapman, VP Healthcare Services,temperature excursion. This data is then fed into the tool and contributes to the success Kuehne+Nagel Management AG, CEng MIET of future shipments.Truly resilient supply chains are dependent Over the past decades, pharmacologyInformation technology experts workingon information technology.has progressed from an era dominated byat Kuehne+Nagels tech hubs in Porto, relatively stable organic compounds into anHamburg and Tallinn develop andFor more information, please visit era increasingly dominated by sophisticatedconstantly improve the tools that make theour website: https://home.kuehne-biologic drugs. The oncology treatments ofquality standards promised by the Healthnagel.com/en/-/services/pharma-today are capable of significantly improvingChain label possible. Within the rapidlyhealthcare-logisticscancer-survival rates. However, for societychanging and increasingly uncertain global to reap the benefits of the advances inlogistics environment, hazard identification medical science, the newly developed,and risk assessment and mitigation are highly temperature-sensitive drugs need tofundamental requirements when planning a be transported from their high specificationshipment route. manufacturing environments to patients in a timely manner, without risk of product- Using real-time PESTLE (political, integrity-damaging deviations along theeconomic, social, technological, legal, way.and environmental data, Kuehne+Nagels digital risk assessment tool, based on the IET Corporate Partner Kuehne+Nagel, oneinternational council for harmonisation of of the worlds leading logistics companies,technical requirements for pharmaceuticals with a 130-year history in connectingin human use risk management (ICH Q9)Jon Chapman, VP people with essential products, no mattermethodology, can optimise transportationHealthcare Services, Kuehne+Nagel the industry, be it automotive, aerospace,processes, and thus lead to a reduction inManagement AG, semiconductors, healthcare, or industrials,quality and distribution issues associatedCEng MIEThas been working tirelessly over the pastwith PESTLE factors. As we move more and ten years to develop its own quality label,more of our data into the cloud and connect Health Chain, to specifically address theever more closely with our customers and challenges of transporting highly sensitivesuppliers the shipment data sets available medications and medical equipment. to the tool becomes ever more detailed'