Sartorius redefines pharma logistics with digital risk management powered by Validaide

As a pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment supplier, Sartorius is a close partner and a one-stop shop for biopharmaceutical manufacturers. 

Sartorius manages its global supply chain with various forwarders that transport a high volume of sensitive shipments across the globe. 

Traditionally, forwarders would create and send SOPs and LRAs back and forth for editing and approval signatures, often in different formats with different processes and quality standards, using their own database for storing these documents.

Managing more than 500 different SOPs and LRAs with this process created a growing number of issues for Sartorius, like lack of visibility due to data fragmentation, inconsistent formats and quality, inefficient and repetitive communication.

• Seamless collaboration with logistics partners to create and approve Lane Risk Assessments in a consistent digital format.

• Combination of multiple data sources: integration of climate data, flight statistics, and capabilities from more than 1,900 logistics suppliers.

• Data-Driven Lane Risk Assessments: complete insight into transport risk with a data-driven evaluation of multiple risk factors per transport route.

• Product details and shipment performance: customized Lane Risk Assessments with product stability data and shipment performance data.

• External integration: seamless flow from planning to execution by exporting Lane Risk Assessments and using these as input into other software applications.

By using the Validaide platform, Sartorius realized the next level of efficiency, 
transparency and quality in supply chain operations.

Sartorius selected Validaide to create a single digital platform for all of their SOPs and LRAs. After the successful implementation of the air freight SOPs, the project was quickly enhanced with road freight and warehouse SOPs.  All freight forwarders used by Sartorius collaborated on this project, for example, Hellmann Worldwide Logistics, creating a connected workflow across the network.