Global Clinical Supply Management

By proactively solving potential product packaging, labeling and release process problems and efficiently navigating challenging local import and export regulations, PPD’s global clinical supply management team helps clients maximize efficiency and ensure on-site delivery of investigational products and supplies.

Our team provides complete management of medical and pharmaceutical supplies through PPD-owned distribution centers or International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH)- and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)-certified contract warehouses on behalf of our clients, including the recently added in-house secondary packaging and labeling services in Ireland.

Full Range of Clinical Supply Management Services

With extensively trained local resources in North America; Europe, the Middle East, Africa (EMEA); and Asia Pacific, PPD offers a full range of services to manage the clinical supply life cycle. These services are fully integrated in PPD’s clinical services and accomplished through extensive communication and common global procedures.

• Life cycle management
• • Single point of contact for all clinical supply management matters from bulk forecasting through reconciliation and destruction
  • Product forecasting and planning
  • Third-party packaging and labeling vendor management
• Global procurement and storage
• • Purchasing commercial and ancillary products
  • Temperature-controlled warehouses
  • Refrigeration and freezer storage (down to -85 degrees Celsius)
  • Controlled environmental chambers
• Secondary packaging and labeling in EMEA
• • Packaging and labeling of investigational products, medical devices, commercial comparators and ancillary products in the new state-of-the-art PPD facility in Ireland
  • In-house clinical label printing
• Distribution
• • Global distribution
  • Ambient, controlled room temperature, frozen and refrigerated shipping conditions
  • Import/export coordination
  • Assistance with import/export licensing
  • Expiry date extension re-labeling at distribution center and at the site
• Drug accountability and destruction (contractor and/or PPD)
• • Organization of returns with PPD-approved courier companies
  • Reconciliation of returned products to the client’s specifications
  • Disposal as per client’s wishes, using PPD-approved destruction vendors

Detailed Processes Ensure Quality

Quality is a critical component of successful supply chain strategies. To ensure quality, PPD has:

• Detailed processes and defined process maps
• Extensive global standard operating procedures (SOPs) and working practice documents (WPDs), ensuring global compliance and harmonization
• Qualified persons (QPs) experienced and trained in the European Union (EU) QP requirements