LOGISTICS

Logistics services for today’s challenges

NOVOFARMA offers a series of logistics services integrated into its ERP in order to maintain the traceability of each product, utilizing automatic code reading through radio frequency capturers in each process.

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Logistics

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More than Logistics

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Customer Service

Quality and timely attention to the needs of our clients is a key factor that guides our actions.

Our care model assigns a Customer Service Executive, with knowledge in the pharmaceutical industry, who is the main point of contact.

Our Executives are trained to coordinate product receptions and order delivery for different channels and manage returns, among other needs.

The service process is supported by a systems platform that allows our clients to track receptions, orders, deliveries and invoices.

We have a focus on continuous improvement, working with our clients to identify opportunities to provide an excellent service.

The Customer Service team has multidisciplinary knowledge to provide quality solutions, transferring knowledge and good practices in order to add value to your business and that of your customers.

Reception

Imports are received and products are purchased domestically by reading bar or 2D codes via radio frequency. This process is integrated with our ERP.

Reception of cold chain products

Priority process where temperature sensors are detained and read and curves are sent to clients. We have an exclusive cold room, located on the reception floor.

Statistical sampling

In accordance with Chilean Standard NCh44, we extract samples and counter samples, which are priority delivered to the analysis laboratory defined by the client.

The traceability of these processes is available on our web platform, including digitized copies of the associated documents.

 

Storage

We have different storage areas according to the temperature approved by the health authority (refrigerated, air-conditioned, frozen). This includes an area for the management of psychotropics and sensitive products with biometric access.

Storage is coded within the assigned range for each client, with a lot-code per location. The WMS handles the virtual quarantine requirement by blocking the sale of those lots.

Virtual Quarantine Management

The storage system is integrated into our ERP and includes a sector of validated positions for each laboratory, allowing us to store only one lot-code per location.

We have developed a virtual quarantine, which allows products to be stored in the physical positions determined by each laboratory, leaving positions blocked for Quarantine by system. Once the Laboratory has the corresponding certificates of analysis, it can enter the client platform to release the approved batches.

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Order Preparation

Our WMS assigns lot and picking location(s) according to the settings defined by our clients. The reading of codes order preparation allows us to validate that the picking location and the lot code are correct.

The preparation of cold orders maintains protocols that record the refrigerators and the temperature monitors used in each dispatch, complying with the regulations (Technical Standard 208).

Connectivity with our clients, through interfaces or our web platform, allows us to automatically send confirmation of each preparation, and then receive the invoices for those orders at our check out / packing stations, where each order is labeled. Our WMS controls that tax documents are not issued in advance.

For laboratories integrated via interfaces

We send picking confirmation, which subsequently generates the invoice automatically in our Check out terminals, where we also weigh small packages and consolidate cargo from different storage areas.

Given the importance of traceability at each stage, these can be viewed in reports on the client’s web platform.

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All lots are assigned automatically under FEFO criteria

In the case of products that are due to expire, we have a dedicated warehouse, which can be reserved through the system, allowing for commercial management that speeds up the sale. In the case of end clients who schedule their reception, we manage the agenda jointly for all Laboratories

For cold chain products, we capture the bar code of the temperature monitor, leaving a record of the pharmaceutical cooler type.
We have a sector specialized in exports where products are prepared according to the standards required by each country.

Medical Sample Cycles

These orders are prepared in a dedicated storage area, with a specialized team that plans, together with the clients, the dates for delivery to the recipient.

Exports

For the international market, we have a dedicated area for order preparation according to the standards of the destination country, which includes a tunnel and automatic case wrapper.

Distribution

We have heat- and air-conditioned trucks and vans, with temperature probes and GPS, monitored from our facilities, allowing us to distribute packages or pallets according to Technical Standard 147.

Refrigerated products can be transported in coolers with a cold setting or in refrigerated trucks, both qualified.

We distribute using electric vehicles in the Metropolitan Region.

By reading bar and 2D codes, we ensure the delivery of invoices and packages to Carriers, allowing the guard to verify the load, the vehicle and the assigned carrier quickly and automatically.

We serve the main distribution channels: Pharmaceutical Chains, Independent Pharmacies, Hospitals, Clinics, Distributors, Medical Representatives, Doctors, as well as deliveries to Animal Health facilities and veterinary clinics

Deliveries are confirmed in real time. The date and time of delivery, reception fulfillment and invoice images can be viewed on our web platform.

Reverse logistics

For the reception of returned products, there is a team designed to review pharmaceutical rejections, returns or exchanges in a segregated storage area with biometric access control.

These products are stored pending the client’s availability, and the information can be viewed on our web platform.

Inventory Control Unit

Specialized in managing and coordinating annual Wall to Wall inventories, continuous inventories on a permanent basis, as well as selective cyclical inventories.

Through the use of radio frequency, the taking of inventories are carried out efficiently.

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