Sector Expertise

Biotech

As a biotech manufacturer, you need to focus on making the best product to improve the health and comfort of your customers and patients. You don’t have time to worry about the biotechnology supply chain, or how you are going to distribute your product. This is when you can rely on us.

Movianto is an experienced biotechnology logistics provider capable of helping start-up and small-to-medium-sized biotech companies enter the European market with new and innovative products. We offer fully customizable biotechnology logistics solutions including standard activities such as inbound, storage, order fulfilment and transport in all required temperatures. 

We can tailor our solutions to your needs, as we do already for many manufacturers of all sizes in the biotechnology industry. Movianto can help to ensure your speed-to-market increases, while also advising you on European last mile biotech solutions. 

Biotech

Biotech Logistics Services

You need to make sure your product gets to the right hospital, laboratory, or pharmacy. We offer tailored inbound, warehousing, order fulfilment, and transport solutions for your business. Some biotechnology products have specialised requirements related to temperature or handling. We offer unbroken cold chain services tailored to these requirements with temperature-controlled facilities in ambient, cold, frozen, and deep-frozen temperatures. We also offer packaging adapted to your biotech product’s specifications. All our processes are GDP compliant. 

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Onboarding Process

We are ready to onboard your biotech company! We welcome new clients using our project implementation method (based on PRINCE2) and start by assigning you a team of project implementation managers to guide you through everything from standard biotechnology logistics services to regulatory affairs, from financial services to European market access.

Biotechnology Financial Solutions

Movianto can offer order-to-cash solutions including direct contact with your customers, bonafides, VAT and credit checks. Basically, we can take care of invoicing and cash collection for you, allowing you to focus on your product! Our experienced and multi-language Customer Care teams are focused on your clients and providing them accurate and immediate information regarding your products and their orders.

European Market Access for International Biotech Products

As an international biotech company, you face many challenges when it comes to accessing the European market. There are 44 countries in Europe (including the United Kingdom), all with their own biotechnology regulations and restrictions, not to mention their own norms and specificities in their healthcare systems. Movianto has both local and international expertise in the European healthcare sector and can advise you on exactly how to approach each market. In certain regions, we offer market access solutions such as (re)testing for the European market, full EU QP release, (EU) QPPV solutions and even solutions where Movianto acts as a distributor for your products.

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Movianto Belgium and the Netherlands are new strategic gateways to the European market, especially for the biotech industry

Through our presence in the EU, we benefit from these two strategic territories from where Biotech companies can easily enter the EU market. Apart from the beneficial geographical location, Belgium and the Netherlands are of particular interest for setting up and doing business due to the favorable tax regime. The relatively low nominal corporate tax rate for foreign companies in these countries strongly encourages local business activity, making this region especially attractive to your business. As a matter of fact, our sites in Belgium and the Netherlands take this particularity into account, focusing more attention on cold temperatures storage capacities from –80°C to 2-8°C.

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Biotechnology Customs Solutions

Movianto’s teams have a great deal of experience in providing customs clearance during inbound/outbound from/to the European market. Whether it is navigating INCOTERMS, using bonded warehouses, or finding a point of access to distribute to all of Europe, our local experts are ready to help you out in the complex world of customs. deep frozen storage at -40°C, and compliance with national and European regulations.

Movianto in Belgium and the Netherlands has simplified access to customs benefits

In addition, Movianto in Belgium and the Netherlands has successfully obtained AEO certification and now benefit from simplified access to customs privileges for its healthcare supply chain activities in and out of these countries. Therefore, you can take advantage of an even more streamlined, safe, cost-effective and trouble-free cross-border movement of your vital samples.

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We provide our clients with end-to-end supply chain visibility, allowing them to track their biotech products from manufacturing to final delivery 

 

At Movianto, we strongly believe that the more data and visibility our customers have on their sensitive cargo and the transparency of our operations, the better. To ensure maximum transparency throughout your biotech supply chain, we have developed Walden View, a platform operating on Microsoft Power BI. Walden View is a powerful business intelligence (BI) digital tool that uses innovative data visualisation technology to process various important source documents into comprehensible visuals, reports and dashboards. With access to Walden View (Microsoft Power BI), you will get a clear view of all the end-to-end transactions we carry out for you and your end customers.

We support our biotech clients in managing risks and developing contingency plans for their supply chain 

We know how important uninterrupted biotech logistics and supply chain is for our clients and their patients. Our Business Continuity Plans (BCP) outline our readiness for potential incidents that could jeopardise the day-to-day running of our organisation or the provision of services beyond of the involved business unit. With the BCP’s in place, we can ensure:  

  • An uninterrupted supply of medicines and medical devices. 
  • Maintenance of the efficacy of the product by respecting the necessary storage conditions. 
  • The highest level of security at our facilities (intruder & fire alarm, and video surveillance systems CCTV). 

Our Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) identify, at a minimum, the following potential risks: power outage, fire, flood, illness (the rate of employees at a site unable to work), train derailment, plane crash, natural disasters, etc. 

Potential risks are categorised by severity and probability and for each risk, a contingency plan is in place. Additionally, at Movianto our teammates are regularly trained to ensure that these contingency plans are followed in case of an emergency. Our Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) are revised annually with input from our clients. We also can develop customised Business Continuity Plans (BCP) according to your requirements. 

A team ready to assist and to ensure business continuity plans

Quality control and regulatory compliance underpin our activities in the biotech supply chain. 

Our quality, security and compliance management are aligned to the pharmaceutical industry. Movianto is one of very few specialist healthcare and pharma logistics providers that has a single standard and group ISO 9001 certification across its European operations.  

A European Quality Management System (EQMS) is in place across the Movianto Group and reflects the requirements and regulations of GDP and GMP.  

At Movianto, all our staff undergo GDP training at the point of their initial induction to the team, and annually thereafter. Each warehouse is authorized, and each country holds all the necessary rights to store and distribute pharmaceutical products throughout Europe. We regularly audit our systems and processes, both individually and with clients present, to provide further reassurance of quality adherence.
 

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Regulatory compliance underpin our activities

We take into account the growing importance of sustainability and environmental responsibility in the biotech industry 

Protecting today’s world and the one that tomorrow’s generations will live in is a concern and an everlasting commitment that all Movianto teammates work together towards. As a logistics service provider to such critical industries as pharmaceuticals and healthcare, we also endeavor to be proactive in environmental protection. An important in-house component of our efforts in this direction is the sustainable development of our buildings, IT infrastructure, and fleet management. We strive to treat natural resources with care and consider economic as well as environmental stakes in our daily business. 

Today we are actively working on the successful implementation of ISO-14001 (an international standard for an Environmental Management System) as well as the EcoVadis Scorecard across all our entities in every country.

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