According to the Ethics Resource Center (ECI), people want to work for an employer that is committed to its values. Consumers expect businesses to be transparent and fair; and shareholders invest when they trust a corporation is profitable while complying with the law and maintaining good governance.
Then why do we see so many organizations fail when it comes to compliance with best practice standards?
The number one response is lack of communication. Failure to ensure a proper expectation is set, implemented, and followed throughout an organization can put an organization at risk of an ethics breech. Often, failure in ethics can be linked back to one single source – inadequate leadership, lack of trust, inconsistent or non-effective policies or best practices – any number of items.
That’s why it’s so important in an industry as critical and risk sensitive as the pharmaceutical industry, that there are continuous improvement measures in place to ensure the proper management, distribution and redistribution of pharmaceuticals is followed. Failure in ethics can put a negative impact on a business’s bottom line, and cause a company to lose customers’ trust. In worst case scenarios, companies can go bankrupt, end up in court, or even go to prison.
Managing pharmaceutical distribution takes more than a sound business practice, it takes strong ethics and great partnerships within the industry. The Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulations ensure the quality of the drug products are carefully monitoring methods, facilities and controls used in manufacturing and distributing a drug product.
Still, following all the best practices and managing a company ethically doesn’t shield you from all risks. External factors such as vendors and suppliers can still cause a company to be vulnerable to poor ethical behavior.
How reliable are your vendors when it comes to ethics?
National Pharmaceutical Returns takes business ethics and security very seriously. We pride ourselves on offering the compliance and client communication necessary to ensure you can be confident you are working with a solid business partner with your return distributions practice.
High Communication Standards
Ensuring a high level of communication ensures you can rely on NPR’s packaging returns instructions to regulate how items should be shipped and how they need to be packaged. NPR updates our database regularly based on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) standards to make it easy for you to determine shipping requirements are followed when returning unused, expired, or recalled pharmaceuticals and hazardous chemicals.
State-of-the-Art Security
Amplified security ensures once items arrive at our facilities the handling, management and destruction or transferring of the product is done to the highest standards. Safety and compliance are at the center of our operational best practices. We recruit, hire, and retain employees whose values are also focused on ethical business practices to support the pharmaceutical industry reverse distribution process and practices.
Managing pharmaceutical distribution takes more than a sound business practice, it takes strong ethics and great partnerships within the industry. The Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulations ensure the quality of the drug products are carefully monitoring methods, facilities and controls used in manufacturing and distributing a drug product.
Working with Trusted Vendors
National Pharmaceutical Returns maintains one of the highest ratings to ensure the proper processing and management of pharmaceuticals in the reverse distribution process. Once product is deemed necessary to be shipped from your office to ours, you want to make sure you know how items need to be shipped, and that you’re going to be able to get proper credit for your returns.
Our industry exclusive shipping and product management database allows pharmacies, medical offices, and other distributors to easily identify the proper redistribution requirements for drug products. We are here to answer any of your questions about our pharmaceutical returns process, and how we can help you support best practices and ethical business management for your organization.
Give us a call at (800) 470-7725 or schedule an appointment to learn more today.