2020 年 12 月 3 日
伊藤忠ロジスティクス株式会社

伊藤忠ロジスティクス株式会社が“Pharma Tech Outlook”において「2020 年アジア太平洋地域のトップ 10 サプライチェーン
マネジメント コンサルティング/サービス企業」に選出されました

このたび、医薬・バイオ・サプライチェーン・ロジスティクス業界で世界中に幅広い読者を持つ月刊誌 “Pharma Tech Outlook” から、当社の医薬品・医療機器への取組みが評価され 「2020 年アジア太平洋地域のトップ 10 サプライチェーン マネジメントコンサルティング/サービス企業」に伊藤忠ロジスティクスが選出されました。

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With increasing demands for warehousing amid rising
tochu Logistics is the core logistics service provider oforders from customers, it is necessary to send goods fromItochu Group. The parent Itochu Corporation, which is a
distribution points to multiple delivery locations and handle
Fortune 500 company, has approximately 100 bases in 62
countries and is engaged in domestic trading, import/export, smaller quantities of a more extensive range of goods in ashorter period. Itochu Logistics can disburden the customer
and overseas trading as well as business investment in Japan andfrom this increasingly complicated challenge of operating aoverseas. In the pharmaceutical supply chain business, there isdistribution center and bring about greater efficiency and ana renewed awareness pertaining to the importance of logistics
overall reduction in its customer’s logistics costs. The company
in supporting Business Continuity Planning (BCP). Industry
designs distribution centers with meticulous attention to detailleaders such as Itochu Logistics recognize the increased demand
to meet each client’s business needs. Case in point, capitalizing
for a stable supply chain and distribution systems that takes intoon the strength of the ITOCHU group, ITOCHU Logistics
consideration the characteristics of pharmaceutical products
quite recently designed a distribution point for a convenienceand medical devices prerequisites. The company also calls forstore, along with real-time inventory management and dispatch
improved quality control, in line with international compliancecontrol. “We do not merely warehouse your goods inrequirements and industry regulations. Against thisthe interval between receiving and dispatching.
backdrop, Itochu Logistics has positioned itself
We conduct inspections, repairs, price tagging,as a one-stop Japanese 3PL services. Using its
order picking, packing, and various otherprofound quality management knowledge, thevalue-added processes as well,” says Kazuhide.
company handles logistics operations acrossHe recalls an instance where Itochu Logistics
multiple pharmaceutical regimes such as ethicalorganized
cold packaging warehouse for its client
pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, in-vitroinJapan
while
arranging customs clearance on adiagnostics suppliers, and drug substances. “ItochuKazuhideSasa
temperature-controlledtruck. The company enabled
Logistics delivers both Japanese domestic andairforwardingof
theirclient’s
products and expedited
overseas 3PL services as well as overseas forwardingcold
packaging
warehouseatthedestination,
thereby strictly
services as a one-stop-shop offering,” asserts Kazuhide Sasa,
avoiding
temperaturedeviationfromthepointof origin. On
President and CEO at Itochu Logistics.
another occasion, as a one-stop-shop service for a Japanesepharma client exporting to China, Itochu Logistics orchestrated
its products’ forwarding process to the region while relabelling
their Chinese products and enabling Chinese domestictransportation.
Building upon such successful collaborations, Itochu
Logistics is planning to overhaul its one-stop-shop logistics
services while enhancing its domestic and overseas 3PL
platform. Through its total outsourcing of logistic operations,along with the combination of distribution centers, safe delivery,
By proposing joint distribution arrangements to its clients
continuous quality enhancement, and cost rationalization,and enabling low-cost operations, Itochu Logistics Group has
Itochu Logistics cements its position as an efficient andpropelled the contract logistics business for pharmaceuticals
optimum logistics business partner for clients. Furthermore,
and medical devices by incorporating its decade-long experience
the company continues to seek to expand its capabilities for its
in retail distribution. The company adopts Good Distribution
clients. For instance, Itochu Logistics now provides both sales
Practice (GDP) as an essential management criterion in theand trading functions as well as logistics services. “We recentlydistribution of pharmaceuticals. Furthermore, Itochu Logistics
established ties with a Chinese drug store operator where Itochu
persistently promotes a safe, secure, and stable distribution ofLogistics will provide both logistics services as well as sales andpharmaceuticals not only in Japan but also across the APAC
trading functions,” concludes Kazuhide.
region, including China, India, and Indonesia.

Itochu Logistics deliver both Japanese
domestic and overseas 3PL services
along with overseas forwarding
services as a one stop shop

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