Sustainability at UPS Healthcare
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Sustainability is the intersection of Environmental impact, Social responsibility and ethical Governance (ESG). At UPS Healthcare, we help our customers reach their environmental sustainability goals through our solutions and services, partner with humanitarian organisations to deliver healthcare to areas in need, and work with government agencies to help make healthcare more accessible to people around the world.
Facilities
Facilities
Our logistics and distribution warehousing facilities are focused on innovation and technology, decarbonisation, and energy efficiency, design elements that may help on your sustainability journey, including:
- Energy-efficient facility controls and practices
- Solar power use
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Packaging
Packaging
Our sustainable cold chain packaging solutions offer materials sourced from approved manufacturers to:
- Reduce packaging waste
- Provide reusable and recyclable cold chain packaging options
- Offer customisable solutions
Transportation Management
Transportation Management
Through our global transportation network, technology innovations, and logistics expertise, we can help you minimise your environmental impact with:
- Visibility into your carbon emissions data
- Access to our Transportation Management System (TMS) to maximise efficiency
- Evaluation of your existing supply chain practices to gain insights into environmentally friendly optimisations
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Vehicles
Vehicles
We leverage the ever-growing suite of UPS alternative fuel and advanced technology to help you minimise your carbon footprint by continually investing in new transportation technologies.
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Social and Governance Sustainability at Work
Sustainability is not just a promise, it is an action plan. UPS is committed to making impactful changes with integrity, collaborating globally to improve healthcare access for low- and middle-income populations.
1. Enabling Healthcare Infrastructure
We help lower income countries implement logistics solutions so they can receive, store, distribute and administer critical vaccines and commodities.
2. Developing Last Mile Solutions
We consult with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and ministries of health on last mile delivery solutions that help close the gap between healthcare commodities and the people who need them.
3. Delivering to Remote Locations
Our UAV (drone) delivery programmes can help get pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and other health commodities to harder-to-reach populations.
4. Safeguarding Biological Samples
We collaborate with ministries of health and NGOs to redesign supply chains and use of technology to support biological sample handling.
5. Implementing Visibility Solutions
We work to implement tracking and monitoring technology solutions that enhance visibility in the low-resource areas we serve.
6. Continuously Improving Logistics
We collaborate with procurement agents, donors and ministries of health to continuously enhance humanitarian logistics solutions for HIV, malaria and reproductive health programs in low-income countries.
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Frequently Asked Questions
We work through UPS Foundation, UPS’s humanitarian organisation, which has more than 15 years of humanitarian logistics experience and operates in more than 90 different countries around the world. Some of the ways we have collaborated with organisations have been::
- Enabling COVID-19 infrastructure to help bring vaccine access to lower income countries
- Developing last mile solutions to close the gap between healthcare commodities and communities that need them
- Delivering to remote locations leveraging our UAV (drone) delivery programmes for harder-to-reach populations
- Safeguarding biological samples by collaborating with partners to re-design supply chains
- Implementing visibility solutions through technology in low-resource areas we serve
- Continuously improving logistics to enhance health programmes in low-income countries
UPS Healthcare provides cold chain packaging solutions that focus on reducing waste and supporting reusability. These solutions include:
- Sustainable cold chain solutions helps ensure the safe transport of temperature-sensitive goods while conserving resources.
- UPS promotes the use of renewable materials in packaging design, reducing excess waste across the supply chain.
Our goal is to help healthcare businesses reduce waste while maintaining product safety and compliance with environmental standards.
UPS Healthcare designs its logistics facilities and practices to align with energy efficiency and environmental compliance.
- The use of advanced energy-efficient facility controls
- A focus on ground fleet decarbonisation and waste reduction within logistics and supply chain operations.
- Ongoing evaluations and consultations to maintain compliance with local and global regulations.
We help your company stay both environmentally responsible and regulation compliant.
Technology is integral to UPS Healthcare’s sustainability strategy, enabling smart solutions for supply chain management. Here is how:
- Transportation management systems (TMS) improve logistical efficiency by optimising delivery routes to reduce emissions, resulting in fewer stops per route and a smaller carbon footprint.
- Emerging delivery technologies like new UPS electric vehicles – which produce zero exaust pipe emission and are allowed to operate in zero emission zones – are being introduced as sustainable alternatives to traditional vehicles, cutting emissions, operating cost, and delivery times.
These innovations help reduce emissions, optimise resources, and achieve sustainable growth.