Clinical trial logistics, distribution, and storage
For over 30 years, Thermo Fisher Scientific has supported the clinical trial supply, distribution, and logistics needs of pharmaceutical and biotechnology sponsors globally. Our 27 purpose-built GMP/GDP-compliant facilities, coupled with over 40 partner depots spread across five continents, guarantee regulatory-compliant movement, management, and delivery of supplies to more than 150 countries across diverse therapeutic areas.
Within our expertise, our logistics specialists manage the storage and distribution of labeled or packaged ambient and cold chain clinical trial materials, investigational medicinal products, comparator medicinal products, and placebos. We offer comprehensive import/export services, including an add-on Importer of Record (IOR) capability in over 24 countries, alongside efficient returns and destruction management throughout our network.
Clinical trial material storage
Offering GMP storage across more than 29 global facilities, complemented by a third-party depot network, providing a combined local presence in over 55 countries.
- Warehouse, refrigerated, frozen, and ultra-frozen storage solutions
- Clinical ancillaries
- Biosample storage
- Bulk pallet storage
- High-density storage with automated storage and picking systems (where available)
Total transportation management
Simplifying logistics to ensure that products reach their destinations on time, in full, and at the right temperature.
Our services for total transportation management include:
- Access to a portfolio of qualified suppliers
- Route optimization to ensure the most efficient transportation methods to meet your objectives
- Customs and regulatory guidance and facilitation to mitigate the risk of costly delays
- Dispatch services coordinate all aspects of scheduling and documentation
- Logistics management including returns management, a shipper reuse program, and shipment arrangement
- Data-objective monitoring and reporting of all shipments enables quick decision-making
- Consolidated billing simplifies supplier invoice management
Track and trace support
Ensuring the prompt and complete delivery of clinical trial materials. Our committed teams offer global assistance, actively tracking and resolving any shipment delays.
- Shipment tracking queries
- Damaged or incorrect shipments
- Customs clearance issues
- Late or lost shipments
- Temperature excursion monitoring and reporting
- Real-time Track and Trace platform
Cold chain logistics and management
Providing end-to-end cold and ultra-cold supply chain solutions, guaranteeing your materials are stored properly and delivered on time and at temperature.
- Controlled temperature storage, packaging, labeling, and distribution ranging from ambient to cryogenic temperatures
- Environmentally friendly reusable shipper program
- Lane validation for transferring from clinical to commercial
- Continuous monitoring solutions for all shipments
Direct-to-patient services
Enhancing accessibility, convenience, and patient compliance, while minimizing logistical challenges and time constraints.
- Multiple options for flexibility: Depot to patient, clinical site to patient, pharmacy to patient
- Ability to ship to key countries approved and vetted by our regulatory experts
- Options for shipping investigational medicinal products (IMP) and non-IMP items (including sourcing and managing supportive medications and ancillaries)
- Continuous monitoring, notifications, and communication in multiple languages to patients and clinical site/home nursing providers as required
Importer of Record (IOR) services
Managing end-to-end supply chains and providing Importer of Record (IOR) services as an additional offering in more than 24 countries.
The IOR is a legal entity responsible for:
- Ensuring the imported goods comply with local laws
- Filing a completed duty entry and associated documents
- Paying the assessed import duties and other taxes on those goods
- Thermo Fisher Scientific is fully vetted and compliant with regional and country-specific laws, providing Importer of Record (IOR) services worldwide
European value-added tax (VAT) reclaim service
Streamlining Importer of Record (IOR) and VAT reclaim requirements by combining these services into one contract, along with providing consolidated invoicing:
- Importer of Record (IOR)
- Customs clearance/brokerage services
- Total transport management (TTM)
- Import VAT management and payments
- Duty on import
- Management of fiscal import reporting
Clinical trial logistics, distribution, and storage site locations
Global network of sites to support both local and global clinical trial supply management.
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