DDN offers urgent delivery for medicine

   DDN, one of the largest providers of outsourced business services to the life sciences industry, will now offer DDN Urgent Access, a service for manufacturers of life-saving products that have time-sensitive delivery requirements.
   The service promises to get these products to patients in eight hours or less anywhere in the continental United States, every day of the year.
   “These products don’t typically have a constant or predictable demand,” said Mark Wiesman, president of DDN. “They’re often expensive, temperature-sensitive and difficult to inventory, but when patients need them, they need them immediately.”
   Wiesman hopes Urgent Access will set a standard for supply chain services and efficiencies that can eventually be brought to cold chain and non-cold chain drugs.
   DDN noted this type of delivery is typically centered on specific items and cost is not a major factor in their delivery, so it will not focus on certain savings methods like filling planes or trucks before deliveries begin.