Lane Risk Program
Lane Risk Program
Understanding the environment through which a time and temperature sensitive product must travel is essential for successful logistics operations, for packaging design and for maintaining drug quality during distribution. The best way to understand the temperature risks that can occur during offsite distribution is to collect current temperature data from representative parts of the supply chain. This process reduces assumptions and can reveal weaknesses, risks and trends within the logistics process. Temperature information collected from a route profiling exercise can be used to develop representative ambient temperature profiles for specific lanes, modes and transport durations. Route profiling is a prerequisite for conducting a statistically representative operational or performance qualification exercise involving shipping containers and refrigerated vehicles. Route qualification is carried out based on a risk assessment. (Source: Technical supplement to WHO Technical Report Series, No. 961, 2011)