UPS Healthcare Announces UPS Premier

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UPS Healthcare has launched UPS Premier, a new service designed to enhance reliability for critical healthcare shipments. This offering utilizes next-generation sensor technology to improve visibility and priority handling. With an emphasis on quality and patient care, UPS Premier aims to address the growing demand for precision logistics in the healthcare sector. The service is part of UPS Healthcare's broader strategy, which includes considerable investments to expand its logistics capabilities, ensuring timely delivery of sensitive medical products.

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• Launch of UPS Premier enhances reliability and visibility for healthcare shipments.
• Utilizes next-generation sensor technology for improved monitoring.
• Strengthens UPS's position in the growing healthcare logistics market.
• Focus on patient care and quality service through innovative logistics solutions.

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ATLANTA, May 28, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

• A New Technology-Enabled Service Within Its Own Network And Beyond
• UPS Premier improves service reliability with priority-handling and improved visibility for critical healthcare packages using next-generation sensor technology and monitoring.

UPS Healthcare (NYSE:UPS) today announced the expansion of its healthcare capabilities with UPS Premier as part of ongoing service and technology upgrades to meet priority-handling needs of healthcare shipments. UPS’s new healthcare logistics unit also launched a new brand slogan, “Quality Focused. Patient Driven.” to highlight its long-term strategy to expand its quality system and focus on a supply chain experience that has UPS® customers’ patients in mind.

The service leverages UPS’s Smart Global Logistics Network package tracking capabilities, combined with next-generation, sensor technology, to enable priority flow paths, sortation, contingency actions and delivery services for critical healthcare shipments.

“We are in as strong a position as ever to support the healthcare industry with new products and services,” said UPS Healthcare President Wes Wheeler. “We are bringing online solutions and technologies that our customers demand, and that strengthen service reliability, visibility and controls. This new technology-enabled for fee service is what we call a priority lane within the integrated UPS package network. We will be able to classify and identify critical healthcare shipments before they leave our customers’ hands and enable greater visibility and control through their journey with technology. This is a major breakthrough in managing sensitive shipments that require an extra level of control.”

Healthcare innovations in biologics, specialty pharmaceuticals and personalized medicine are driving significant demand for precision logistics to support more patient-critical, time-and temperature-sensitive products.

“Our healthcare customers and their patients expect near-perfect service levels for high-value, critical medical products,” said Paul Vassallo, UPS vice president of healthcare strategy. “Specialty courier (white glove) services can be expensive and hard to scale. Our customers are demanding alternative solutions to provide superior patient care. The UPS Premier technology-enabled priority service gives customers unprecedented control, visibility and reliability in their supply chain.”

About UPS Healthcare

UPS Healthcare provides global supply chain solutions and expertise to pharmaceutical, biopharma and medical device companies. UPS Healthcare has approximately 8 million square feet of cGMP- or cGDP-compliant healthcare distribution space globally. UPS Healthcare also maintains one of the world’s largest networks of field stocking locations with approximately 900 sites. For parcels requiring strict temperature environments, from CRT to cryogenic, and those requiring around-the-clock monitoring, UPS Healthcare has solutions such as UPS Temperature True™ and UPS Proactive Response™ services. UPS Healthcare is committed to expanding its healthcare capabilities including acquisitions of Marken, CEMELOG and Polar Speed, to meet the complex and evolving supply chain needs of the healthcare and life science sectors. Visit ups.com/healthcare.

David Graves
davidgraves@ups.com

FAQ

What is UPS Premier announced by UPS Healthcare?

UPS Premier is a new service launched by UPS Healthcare that enhances reliability and visibility for critical healthcare shipments using next-generation sensor technology.

How does UPS Premier improve healthcare logistics?

UPS Premier improves healthcare logistics by providing priority handling, enhanced monitoring, and visibility for sensitive medical products, addressing the demand for precision logistics.

When was UPS Premier launched?

UPS Premier was launched on May 28, 2020.

What technology does UPS Premier utilize?

UPS Premier utilizes next-generation sensor technology to enable better tracking and priority handling of healthcare shipments.

How does UPS Healthcare support the pharmaceutical industry?

UPS Healthcare supports the pharmaceutical industry with global supply chain solutions, ensuring reliable delivery of time-sensitive and temperature-controlled products.