Specialty logistics and warehousing

Leverage our global network, specialized packaging, and customs expertise to ensure safe, secure storage and timely delivery worldwide.

We take charge of logistics and transport to let our customers lead in breakthroughs

With over 50 years of managing shipments around the world, our trusted team of experts have extensive experience navigating global customs complexities and regulatory requirements to avoid delays. Our services ensure the supply chain is optimized for reliability, efficiency, safety, and cost, and our comprehensive approach not only reduces operational costs and saves time, but also enhances overall patient care by ensuring precise deliveries.

Why partner with Cencora?

Our customers trust us to transport life-saving therapies around the globe thanks to our relentless pursuit of excellence, adherence to the highest quality standards, and continuous investment in infrastructure, people, and processes. We offer a partnership-driven approach with flexible account management and a solutions-oriented mindset, ensuring operational excellence at every key point in your product's journey.

With over 140 3PL facilities and transport stations around the world, our team has expertise in areas like specialty pharma, biosimilars, and cell and gene therapy, and we are eager to innovate and flex to meet the unique needs of your product.

Our specialty logistics and warehousing solutions

Third party logistics

Streamline supply chains by outsourcing tasks like transport, warehousing, inventory management, and distribution. Enable your business to scale rapidly while boosting efficiency and reducing costs.

Specialty logistics and transportation

Overcome the complex challenges and risks posed by advanced therapies and high-value pharmaceuticals with solutions that offer temperature control, compliance support, and more.

Storage solutions

Meet your product’s unique needs with quality-assured, temperature-controlled, and secure storage, including controlled ambient and cold chain solutions. We also offer DEA vaults and cages.

Packaging solutions

Maintain the integrity and security of products while ensuring compliance and product safety with one of our many proven solutions. Cocoon is our standard-setting passive cold chain packaging solution for shipping pallet-sized temperature-sensitive materials.

Repackaging, relabeling, and kitting

Get compliant repackaging and relabeling in the event of regulatory or commercial changes. Save time, money, and resources when managing additional vendors or back-and-forth shipping. Our specialist team can also kit, store, and distribute medical supplies.

Serialization and product tracking

Robust tracking systems, including real-time location monitoring, provide end-to-end visibility and security while maintaining compliance with international regulations. Reduce errors with enhanced inventory accuracy and management.

Order and inventory management systems

Operate a more responsive and reliable supply chain. Our advanced technology provides real-time visibility, optimizes inventory levels, and facilitates seamless order processing.

Returns and reverse logistics

Process every return as easily as every sale. View returns in real time and offer online credit approval, timely credit assessment, and debit memo reconciliation.

Importation/ exportation

Ensure seamless global movement of pharmaceutical products. Our teams of experts plan for all regulatory contingencies and if complications arise, they expedite the process in the local language.

Our specialty logistics and warehousing organizations

As we transition to one Cencora and bring all of our companies and services together under our new name, you can expect a seamless experience no matter which part of our organization you work with. Explore how we serve communities worldwide, backed by global resources and local expertise and support.

Alloga

Alloga offers supply chain solutions as a logistics provider with international reach and scale. Active in 12 countries across Europe, Alloga's experts use local market insight to build tailored solutions for reliable delivery to hospitals, pharmacists, and more.

ICS

ICS partners with pharma companies to develop efficient, high-quality supply chain strategies. With 3PL facilities located in Louisville, KY; Reno, NV; and Columbus, OH, ICS has helped to bring hundreds of products to market over the past two decades.

Innomar Strategies

Innomar Strategies serves as a fully licensed importer of record and logistics provider in the Canadian market. With 250,000+ square-feet of storage in their GMP-compliant facilities, the organization offers enhanced logistics solutions, including quality assurance and importation.

World Courier

World Courier provides specialty logistics services to drive the clinical and commercial success of partners around the globe. It delivers world-class supply chain programs, transport services, decentralized clinical trial support, and storage for time-and temperature-sensitive products.

Featured resource

Case study

How real-time location monitoring ensured timely medication delivery

Explore how real-time location monitoring (RTLM) enhances the logistics operations for specialized medication shipments. Learn how World Courier leverages RTLM technology to ensure shipments reach the right people, at the right place and time.

Discover more capabilities

Drug research and clinical development support

Streamline the drug development process and minimize risk when bringing new therapies to market with our suite of consulting and support solutions.

Commercialization support

Build a foundation for a successful product launch and accelerate your speed-to-market across the globe with strategic, integrated, and proactive solutions.

Patient access and adherence support

Address potential barriers to access and increase the speed-to-therapy with our suite of pharma patient support services.

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