Pharmaceutical Good Distribution Practices – A Review of Global Scenario

In order to manage medicine distribution in an appropriate manner, there is a necessity of deep understanding of its management. The challenges of the pharmaceutical products supply chain are its specified shelf life and specified storage conditions. Managing quality of medicines during distribution is a critical operation. There are various dosage forms of medicines eg tablets, syrups, injectables etc. Each of them are to be stored at different environmental conditions defined on the basis of stability of drug products. For cold chain products, more care is required because of the fear of failures during testing. The desired features have high requirements for supply chain management and planning to achieve the goal of ensuring availability in retail stores without increasing the quantity of wasted products in different supply chain phases. In UK, USA and Europe significant amount of control is exercised during medicine distribution as compared to Pacific region.