Challenges in pharmaceutical distribution

Anna Kat02 Sep, 2024Health

In a pharmaceutical ecosystem, distribution is one of the essential steps. Distributors manage a complex supply chain, harnessing innovative technologies to ensure safe, secure, and efficient delivery every time. In all this process, distributors face many challenges. This industry has multiple layers, and the outbound supply chain is very complicated with various stakeholders such as C&F, CSA, super stockists, dealers, distributors, sub-stockists, etc. Even among distributors, there are trade distributors, hospital stockists, generic Pharma distributors, medical device suppliers, consignment agents, to name a few. This process gets complicated; there are inter-state transfer pricing challenges, CST, Octroi, etc. Moreover, every month, many new brands and products are added to the list and many more. Ikris Pharma Network is a licensed pharmaceutical distributor having generic medicine distributorship for accessing life saving medicines worldwide.