Clinical logistics is becoming a strategic discipline: what biopharma needs to prepare for next

Published: 2-Feb-2026

Clinical development has been expanding in ways that challenge long-standing assumptions about what it takes to keep studies moving

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Trials span more regions, involve more complex modalities and shift more frequently in response to enrolment patterns or protocol adjustments.

Yet the systems responsible for moving materials, information and decisions across these studies are often treated as operational plumbing rather than a strategic capability.

That view is changing, notes Sebastien Thomassin, Vice President and General Manager, Clinical Services EMEA, Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Clinical logistics now plays a central role in determining whether development programmes stay on schedule, maintain quality and respond effectively to uncertainty.

Organisations that treat logistics as a strategic discipline are gaining advantages that go beyond efficiency. 

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