Republic of Ireland
TERMS & CONDITIONS
- If you are purchasing goods from United Drug Distributors, our terms and conditions of sale
apply.
- If United Drug Distributors are purchasing goods or services from you, our terms and conditions of purchase apply.
Our Business
United Drug Distribution manages outsourced activities on behalf of the healthcare manufacturer. Our core focus is in the areas of storage, order processing, distribution, commercial support and value added services.
Our Mission
Our mission is to manage prescribed activities for healthcare manufacturers through appropriate and innovative value-added solutions that contribute to the mutual success of our businesses. Maintaining and developing a strong team of people who delight in being part of a growing, ambitious business and in providing excellence is the key to our continued success.
Our Strategy
Our strategy is to retain and attract new business by being the best provider of outsourced distribution, business administration, sales and marketing and other related services to the market. Our innovative culture means we are continuously developing new services that result in new revenue streams making us even more attractive to potential Principals and retaining our competitive edge.
Quality Focus
Investment in quality standards such as ISO 9001:2008, cold chain maintenance, IMB approved premises and Good Distribution Practice (GDP) is critical to our business and an area with a key competitive advantage for United Drug.
The Main Principle - Professionalism
We recruit the best people in order to plan, implement and manage our Principals business to the highest possible standards. In our business, professionalism is not just about the service we provide but also about the people who provide that service.
Innovation & Continuous Development
United Drug have invested heavily in advanced I.T. systems to better manage our business and to provide accurate, timely and flexible data to our Principals. We benchmark our performance against "best in class" and feed this performance data back to our Principals.
Ownership
Responsibility for our actions, relationships built on trust and true partnerships are the cornerstones of our service. The highest standards of performances are expected at all times. We take ownership of our Principals outsourced activities and manage them as if they were managing these activities themselves.
Communication & Teamwork
Regular, formal and informal contact with our Principals and customers ensures transparency and creates an ethos of teamwork and openness in the client / service relationship.
Quality Policy
It is the policy of United Drug to provide a service to our customers and clients that meets or exceeds their legitimate expectations and our commitments to them, while maintaining the high standard of compliance with current regulatory requirements.
This is achieved through a focus on customer and patient needs. Development, training and consistent improvement of our people, processes and practices, along with investment in systems, are driven by such needs.
We continuously communicate our business's mission with staff to allow them to grow along with the company. A comprehensive measurement system is used to ensure continuous improvement of people, processes and practice.
United Drug senior management and all employees of United Drug are collectively committed to this policy.
Facilities
United Drug Distribution operate from a state of the art, IMB approved, purpose built facility in Citywest, Dublin. The site is approximately six hectares in area and comprises of two separate warehouses of 6,700 sq m for United Drug Wholesale (Magna 1) and 19,000 sq m for United Drug Distribution (Magna 2). There is a combined office area of approx. 7,700 sq m.
Account Management
In order to understand our Principals' business requirements and needs it is important that we build and maintain strong relationships. At United Drug we appoint Key Account Managers who are responsible for working with our Principals to identify opportunities for, and challenges facing each of our individual Principal's businesses.
- Inventory Management/Supply Chain integrity
- Product Launches
- Project Management
- Monitoring performance & cost
- KPI/Service Level Reporting
- Recall Management
- Development and enhancement of service offering
- Conduit for issue resolution
Information Services
PARIS (Provision of Analytical Reporting and Information Services)
United drug operate a Management Information System called PARIS which allows full access to all stock and sales information. PARIS is a web-enabled tool which facilitates remote access to information by approved users through the Internet. The system is a data-mining tool which works by diving into the customer and stock information and allowing this to be reported in either a pre-formatted model or on an ad hoc basis.