Pfizer shortens UK supply chain
Executive Summary
Pfizer will distribute its prescription medicines directly to pharmacists and dispensing doctors in the United Kingdom, the company announces Sept. 28. Pfizer has entered an exclusive partnership with UniChem, which will act as a logistics provider for the distribution of Pfizer medicines in the U.K. The distribution process, which Pfizer says was enacted to secure the supply chain, will launch in March 2007...