Through its subsidiary UPS Supply Chain Solutions, United Parcel Service (UPS) said that it has assumed control of two key Merck distribution centers, which provide Merck with temperature-sensitive storage, packaging and transportation services critical to its pharmaceutical and vaccine products.
The majority of Merck’s US vaccines and pharmaceutical volume flow from the two centers located in suburban Atlanta, Georgia and Reno, Nevada. The two US facilities are cGMP-compliant and add more than 200,000sqft of healthcare logistics space to UPS’s network.
Bill Hook, vice president of global strategy for healthcare logistics at UPS, said: “Our latest initiative with Merck marks the next step in our relationship to meet this customer’s evolving needs. UPS has invested heavily to provide healthcare customers such key advantages as integrated supply chain solutions combining multiple modes of transportation, plus dedicated healthcare facilities.”