How to Choose the Right Cold Chain Packaging Solution: A Practical Buyer’s Guide for Temperature Controlled Shipping

Key Takeaways  Choosing the appropriate cold chain packaging is critical for safeguarding product quality, ensuring regulatory compliance, and controlling costs. Effective temperature-controlled packaging solutions are engineered to consistently protect product integrity across various shipping routes and conditions. This outlines a practical, step-by-step approach for buyers to select and standardize cold chain packaging that performs reliably […]

Best Cold Chain Solutions for IDNs: Strategies for Operational Resilience and Compliance

For Integrated Delivery Networks, cold chain performance is rarely the primary strategic focus until it becomes a visible problem. A single temperature excursion can result in the loss of vital biologic products, prompting pharmacy leaders to escalate the issue immediately.

Cold Chain Best Practices: 12 Proven Ways to Reduce Temperature Excursions and Protect Product Quality

Executive Summary (Key Takeaways) Temperature excursions are often preventable. Most failures come from repeatable gaps in lane assumptions, refrigerant conditioning, pack out consistency, and last mile exposure. Cold chain best practices help packaging and logistics teams lower excursion rates, ensure consistent shipments, and maintain product quality. Learn more about Veritiv’s cold chain solutions What Causes […]

Redesigning Packouts to Reduce Freight Spend

The Challenge   A global biopharma manufacturer ships high-value, temperature-sensitive products across domestic and international markets. Their therapies require strict 2–8°C control, where even brief temperature excursions can put product integrity, compliance, and patient outcomes at risk. Like many companies in the biologics space, the customer leaned on conservative shipping strategies, including frequent overnight services […]

Cold Chain 101: Why Temperature Control Is Critical for Safe Blood Transfusions

Blood transfusion is one of the most essential and lifesaving procedures in modern medicine. Every day, hospitals and healthcare systems rely on red blood cells, plasma, platelets, cryoprecipitate, and whole blood to treat trauma patients, support complex surgeries, manage chronic diseases, and respond to emergencies. While transfusion is common, the process behind safely delivering blood […]

Cold Chain Logistics 101: The Essential Role of Temperature-Controlled Supply Chains for 3PLs Serving Healthcare

    Cold chain logistics sits at the center of modern healthcare. From vaccines and biologics to diagnostic reagents and advanced therapies, more products than ever require a specific temperature range to stay safe, stable, and effective. As global demand grows and therapies become more complex, the need for reliable temperature-controlled systems has never been […]

Callie’s Cold Chain Packaging Solution Delivers Freshness

The Challenge   Callie’s Hot Little Biscuit needed robust, brand-aligned cold chain packaging to keep its frozen biscuits cold during a two-to-three-day shipping window across multiple climates, temperatures, and shippers. The Solution Veritiv’s team crafted a branded, ready-to-ship insulated box that kept the biscuits cold and cut costs. The cold chain kit was designed to […]

Webstaurant Store Success: Packaging Drives Growth

The Challenge   WebstaurantStore® store struggled with limited capacity to store and ship frozen foods and had difficulty maintaining food-safe temperatures throughout the shipping process. Inventory management was also difficult, as limited space meant ordering based on projected usage, often leading to excess or insufficient stock. The Solution Veritiv® addressed these challenges by leveraging our network of […]

Cold Chain 101: Why Temperature Control Is Critical for Diagnostic Accuracy

With more than 14 billion diagnostic tests performed annually in the U.S. and over 70% of medical decision relying on laboratory results, diagnostic testing is one of the most critical components of healthcare. As diagnostic testing becomes more sophisticated and globally interconnected, the integrity of biological samples has become both an operational and clinical priority. […]

Streamlining Pharmacy Packaging Operations

Challenge  A leading pharmacy provider with locations in two states faced a critical challenge: limited storage space and reliance on multiple manufacturers for EPS coolers. This fragmented approach created inefficiencies, increased costs, and complicated inventory management.  Solution  Veritiv partnered with the pharmacy provider to design a comprehensive packaging strategy that simplified operations and reduced costs. Our team […]