China's pharmaceutical manufacturing logistics costs are still high

In 2009, China introduced a new medical reform program, which provided policy support for pharmaceutical companies to adopt modern logistics technologies to improve the circulation of medicines. According to statistics, in 2009, the demand for logistics in China's pharmaceutical manufacturing industry grew rapidly, but logistics costs remained high, and there was still a large gap compared with developed countries.

The pharmaceutical manufacturing industry is an important national industry. Its development status is directly related to the medical level enjoyed by the general public. In 2009, the State introduced a new medical reform program, strengthened the supervision of pharmaceutical circulation, and gave policy support to pharmaceutical enterprises in adopting modern logistics technologies to improve the circulation of medicines. With the gradual implementation of the new medical reform program, the entire pharmaceutical circulation market will undergo direct changes in the supply chain, and pharmaceutical companies will transition to pharmaceutical companies with modern logistics capabilities.

The logistics costs of pharmaceutical companies mainly include transportation costs, packaging costs, storage costs, and management costs. Drugs are special commodities and their transportation requirements are different. Therefore, compared with the logistics of other industries, the logistics structure of medicine is very complicated. In recent years, the logistics costs of pharmaceutical companies have been rising. Therefore, reducing logistics costs has become an important task for China's pharmaceutical industry.

According to the statistics data of key enterprises in China in 2010, the demand for logistics in China's pharmaceutical manufacturing industry grew rapidly in 2009, but logistics costs are still high, and there is still a big gap compared with developed countries.

The demand for logistics business in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry has grown rapidly. With the rapid development of China’s economy, the improvement of people’s living standards, and the implementation of the basic medical insurance system, people’s demand for medicine continues to increase, and the pharmaceutical logistics industry has also experienced rapid development. According to statistical survey data, in 2009, the total logistics volume of China's pharmaceutical manufacturing industry reached 919.17 billion yuan, an increase of 20.5% compared with the same period of last year, 11.1 percentage points higher than the total logistics volume of industrial products in the same period.

The pharmaceutical manufacturing industry has high logistics costs. Some experts believe that one of the reasons for the high drug prices is the high cost of logistics. The statistical survey data shows that in 2009, the cost rate of logistics in China's pharmaceutical manufacturing industry was 11.3%, which was 0.2% higher than the same period of last year, and the cost rate of logistics costs of all industrial enterprises surveyed was 1.5 percentage points higher than the previous year, still at a relatively high level. . Based on this logistics cost rate, the logistics cost of China's pharmaceutical companies in 2009 was approximately 102.9 billion yuan.

Logistics costs continue to increase. With the rapid development of the demand for logistics services, the scale of logistics costs for pharmaceutical companies continues to expand. Statistical survey data show that in 2009 the medical industry's logistics expenses increased by 18.1% over the previous year. In the composition of logistics expenses, the transportation cost accounted for 45.8%, which was a decrease of 2.5 percentage points compared with the same period of last year; the storage cost accounted for 10.7%, which was an increase of 2.4 percentage points compared with the same period of last year; and the packaging cost accounted for The proportion was 4.8%, which was an increase of 2% compared with the same period of last year; the proportion of distribution costs was 7.5%, which was a decrease of 0.4% compared with the same period of last year.

The logistics expense rate rose slightly. Statistical survey data show that in 2009 the cost of medicine manufacturing industry was 11.3%, an increase of 0.2% compared with the same period of last year. Based on this calculation, in 2009, the logistics cost of China's pharmaceutical manufacturing industry increased by 2.02 billion yuan year-on-year. In 2009, the logistics cost rate of the Japanese pharmaceutical industry was only 0.7%, which was 10.62% lower than that of China. It can be seen that the gap between the logistics efficiency of China's pharmaceutical companies and that of Japan is quite obvious. If the logistics cost rate of China's pharmaceutical companies reaches the level of Japan, China's pharmaceutical manufacturing industry can save 96.52 billion yuan in logistics costs in 2009.