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API and controlled drug logistics 

Protect your business continuity with our active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) supply chain and manufacturing logistics solutions. 

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Transporting and storing high value active ingredient shipments 

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The right logistics partner for your API supply chain

Pharmaceutical manufacturers contend with several risk factors that can jeopardize scheduled market launches, including high-value inventory, complex manufacturing processes, and increasingly tight temperature control requirements. Finding the right logistics provider is critical. Whether you need your APIs to go to a manufacturing site, a downstream customer, or a research facility, we can manage the distribution side of your supply chain.  

As your logistics partner, we can design custom supply chains for raw materials, active ingredients, excipients, and intermediates. You can rely on temperature-control performance at the highest level along with compliant storage solutions like controlled substance cages and narcotics vaults — reducing your risk and unplanned costs.  

We have expertise in building secure supply chains for a wide variety of APIs: 

  • APIs for steriles  
  • APIs for biologics 
  • large-molecule APIs 
  • highly-potent APIs 
  • high-value/low-volume APIs 

Key benefits

Climate-controlled storage and distribution 

We offer storage and transportation solutions for temperature- and humidity-sensitive products across a wide range of temperatures. We can accommodate manufacturers requiring strict temperature-range adherence (including controlled ambient, refrigerated, frozen, and ultra-low temperature), easily adjusted depending on product needs. 

Licensed depots around the world 

Partnering with Cencora gives you access to over 100 facilities in more than 50 countries, extending your reach to key markets worldwide. We can transport and store manufacturing components as well as finished products — and assure chain of custody throughout your shipment’s journey. Our depots adhere to quality guidelines and regulations.  

Custom sourcing and manufacturing storage 

When you partner with Cencora, every storage method is designed to meet the specific temperature requirements and hold times necessary for your products. We offer reliable short-term storage of APIs, API intermediates, drug substances, and drug intermediates and can also store samples for QC release/testing. You can overcome capacity constraints, avoid temperature excursions, and eliminate delays as you bridge the time between scheduled manufacturing slots. 

Integrations that unlock key reporting insights 

Our related technology solutions unlock robust, flexible integrations with your existing logistics management systems. That means access to real-time reporting of available and quarantined inventory, daily sales, returns, credits, and other customizable data. 

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