UPS Healthcare Announces UPS Premier
May 28 2020 - 9:00AM
- A New Technology-Enabled Service Within Its Own Network And
Beyond
- UPS Premier improves service reliability with priority-handling
and improved visibility for critical healthcare packages using
next-generation sensor technology and monitoring.
UPS Healthcare (NYSE:UPS) today announced the expansion of its
healthcare capabilities with UPS Premier as part of ongoing service
and technology upgrades to meet priority-handling needs of
healthcare shipments. UPS’s new healthcare logistics unit also
launched a new brand slogan, “Quality Focused. Patient
Driven.” to highlight its long-term strategy to expand its
quality system and focus on a supply chain experience that has UPS®
customers’ patients in mind.
The service leverages UPS’s Smart Global Logistics Network
package tracking capabilities, combined with next-generation,
sensor technology, to enable priority flow paths, sortation,
contingency actions and delivery services for critical healthcare
shipments.
“We are in as strong a position as ever to support the
healthcare industry with new products and services,” said UPS
Healthcare President Wes Wheeler. “We are bringing online solutions
and technologies that our customers demand, and that strengthen
service reliability, visibility and controls. This new
technology-enabled for fee service is what we call a priority lane
within the integrated UPS package network. We will be able to
classify and identify critical healthcare shipments before they
leave our customers’ hands and enable greater visibility and
control through their journey with technology. This is a major
breakthrough in managing sensitive shipments that require an extra
level of control.”
Healthcare innovations in biologics, specialty pharmaceuticals
and personalized medicine are driving significant demand for
precision logistics to support more patient-critical, time-and
temperature-sensitive products.
“Our healthcare customers and their patients expect near-perfect
service levels for high-value, critical medical products,” said
Paul Vassallo, UPS vice president of healthcare strategy.
“Specialty courier (white glove) services can be expensive and hard
to scale. Our customers are demanding alternative solutions to
provide superior patient care. The UPS Premier technology-enabled
priority service gives customers unprecedented control, visibility
and reliability in their supply chain.”
About UPS Healthcare
UPS Healthcare provides global supply chain solutions and
expertise to pharmaceutical, biopharma and medical device
companies. UPS Healthcare has approximately 8 million square feet
of cGMP- or cGDP-compliant healthcare distribution space globally.
UPS Healthcare also maintains one of the world’s largest networks
of field stocking locations with approximately 900 sites. For
parcels requiring strict temperature environments, from CRT to
cryogenic, and those requiring around-the-clock monitoring, UPS
Healthcare has solutions such as UPS Temperature True™ and UPS
Proactive Response™ services. UPS Healthcare is committed to
expanding its healthcare capabilities including acquisitions of
Marken, CEMELOG and Polar Speed, to meet the complex and evolving
supply chain needs of the healthcare and life science sectors.
Visit ups.com/healthcare.
David Graves
davidgraves@ups.com
United Parcel Service (NYSE:UPS)
Historical Stock Chart
From Mar 2024 to Apr 2024
United Parcel Service (NYSE:UPS)
Historical Stock Chart
From Apr 2023 to Apr 2024