UPS expands healthcare options with new Puerto Rico facility
UPS is expanding its options for healthcare customers with the addition of a new state-of-the-art facility in Puerto Rico.
Set to open in the first quarter of 2009, the 150,000-square-foot facility will be capable of storing medical devices in addition to sensitive and perishable pharmaceutical and biotech products while augmenting a supply chain network for customers that provides timely delivery throughout the world.
The new facility, located in San Juan, also will offer healthcare customers the flexibility needed to facilitate new product introductions, meet time-critical commitments, reduce inventory management costs and streamline ordering and billing processes, all while providing maximum supply chain visibility. UPS will utilize the same validated technology platform employed in its U.S. and Canadian healthcare distribution centers, allowing for smooth implementations.
UPS’s investment in the facility will allow it to better serve companies in the healthcare industry in the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean in addition to the United States.
The new facility in Puerto Rico is opening at the same time as a previously announced 215,000-square-foot healthcare distribution facility in Roermond, The Netherlands. Together, these two facilities will expand UPS’s existing global healthcare network to 25 facilities.
