China's medical equipment industry overall momentum of rapid development, has brought vast opportunities for development of professional logistics of medical equipment, but because of the particularity of professional equipment equipment, products and distribution channels, China's medical equipment logistics have been unable to widespread attention, professional the number of third-party logistics companies, few medical devices, which is China's nearly 300 billion yuan of medical devices does not match the size of the market, but a departure from the current regulatory requirements. The overall development of logistics in terms of medical equipment, mainly in the following aspects.
First, companies pay attention to the degree of the logistics chain is not high
China's medical equipment business threshold is low, and many medical products are low technical level of low-end products, so it is the medical institutions or medical device logistics enterprises have not paid enough attention, as well as products in the transport and storage sectors, there are many security risks, these medical devices If you have problems in the logistics process, it is difficult to guarantee consumer safety. Therefore, increase the importance of the logistics industry is the inevitable trend of development of the medical device industry, but also the public safety needs.
Second, the industry regulator loose, difficult to enter the professional third party logistics companies
National regulation of medical devices in the field of logistics is relatively loose, resulting in medical devices, there has been a lot of logistics are not standardized phenomenon, coupled with low operating costs of enterprise chase, standardized and efficient modern logistics enterprises difficult to enter the industry.
Third, the technology behind the lack of integration of industry resources
Storage and transport of diagnostic reagents and other medical equipment are required to strictly control the temperature, the higher the logistics process of technical requirements. However, the development of cold chain logistics is not perfect, reagent production, shipments of small enterprises, the volume, the integration of resources exist in refrigerated vehicles more difficult, it is difficult to form a scale. Currently, logistics enterprises exist during transport layers of subcontractors, the entire transport monitoring and traceability can not guarantee the quality of runaway problem prone, security and more.
Fourth, in the medical device professional logistics personnel shortage
For example, storage dispatchers medical devices need to have some medical background, so the dispatcher received a major hospital or a doctor orders a time, you can decide what kind of equipment and the distribution of products based on the patient case, thus greatly reducing the logistics probability distribution equipment product does not match with the patient needs. However, the current logistics practitioners in medical equipment, personnel with professional background is less in urgent need of multi-channel culture.
2014, "medical equipment business supervision and management methods" and many other important pieces of legislation was promulgated, regulatory requirements, medical equipment distribution and logistics to further improve the regulatory level for the first time to build a solid legal status of pharmaceutical third party logistics companies platform. Whether or policy guidance from senior industry demand, standardization, market specialization is the trend of logistics development of medical devices.
First, the local government to strengthen policy ground, promote the development of industry standards
In order to implement the "medical equipment business management approach" and GSP requirements, third-party logistics pilot medical devices Beijing, Shanghai, Hubei, Henan and other regions further. In Shanghai, Beijing, for example, the two companies a total of more than twenty medical devices are classified as third-party logistics pilot enterprises, the pilot will promote the medical equipment business segment storage channel concentration, reduce medical device market distribution costs, and the use of third party material enterprise information superiority, strengthen high-risk medical devices product traceability management. Pilot Project showed that a third-party logistics model for medical devices to improve medical equipment business segment storage and transportation of standardized, intensive management, development of the industry to meet the needs of positive significance. Today, like Greiner Jianfeng, DKSH shows and other companies have come to the meeting point of the scene, with everyone sharing experiences.
Second, third-party logistics to accelerate the development of medical devices
The above mentioned policy to promote the role of the third party logistics enterprises of medical devices, but only one, a fundamental breakdown of the logistics market development from the industry it serves their own development, so the rapid growth of China's medical device market is to promote third-party logistics development in medical devices the fundamental driving force. Medical Devices of the Third Party Logistics started late, but with the medical device industry logistics seamlessly, enhance traceability requirements of professionalism and scale advantages of third-party professional logistics will further show rapid development.
Third, the medical device supply chain integration services and huge development potential
China's medical equipment is still in the stage of absorption of innovation, imports of medical equipment in the country occupies an important share of the market, while China's medical equipment export model is also restructuring and adjustments which, along with medical equipment to go into the past, supply chain integration services. Especially for large precision instrument, it involves a number of aspects of customs clearance, international logistics, the whole supply chain logistics services and installation and commissioning process is extremely strict requirements, need professional supply chain solutions team.
Fourth, the electricity supplier and distribution of medical devices had become the system
China's medical equipment in 2014 was about 255.6 billion yuan of sales volume market, the retail market is about 61.2 billion yuan, of which electricity provider channel sales of about 15.8 billion yuan, accounting for 25.82%, this proportion is rising year by year. As early as in 2012, medical equipment has become the first breakthrough medicine electricity supplier category, there O2O model, for the home medical equipment to find a new way out, hiding behind the medicine O2O mode electricity supplier logistics system, service system, tracking system model has been initially formed, but remains to be further explored all of you entrepreneurs to achieve integration of resources online and offline.
Fifth, strengthen personnel training professional
Logistics enterprise quality management, inspection, warehousing, transportation and other staff positions, should receive induction training, acquire the appropriate expertise, in line with job skills, medical logistics practitioners should be on this basis, to strengthen the teaching and training of medical-related knowledge. Very happy, just Professor Jiang Haihong Shanghai Health Medical School told me in exchange, the future health of Medicine Shanghai will set up special logistics professionals, strengthen personnel training medical equipment logistics. From the perspective of the Association, we will actively joint schools, businesses and promote job training related industries.