Objective: to study operational structure of logistics department at 'Biocard GMBH' in order to look into ways of switching from manual to a more technology based system when dealing with clinical supply distribution. The current situation. I have chosen to conduct my research at 'Biocard GMBH' because I had an opportunity to work there on several occasions over the summer holidays. The organisation in question can be considered as a start-up. It has less than …showed first 75 words of 2667 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2667 total…with a 3,000 patient trial had 12 drug assignments per patient at an average cost of $25 per dispensing unit. Without Covance IVRS, the customer would have needed to produce 170% of the drug (at a cost of $1,530,000). Instead, they only needed to produce $927,000 worth of the drug -- a savings of more than $600,000. In trials where drug supply is limited or costly, it pays for you to allow real-time data from Covance IVRS to drastically reduce drug wastage.