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Pharma and life-science intralogistics

Plan material flows through the building.

A material may arrive, wait for sampling, move into temperature-controlled storage and later be issued to production. Its identity, status, container and handling conditions affect every step. Returns, samples and waste need routes and handovers too.

Tidira plans these logistics requirements with operations and the appointed planning disciplines. The work connects rooms and routes to storage, handling, equipment and software. Quality and specialist functions define the applicable requirements and retain their decisions and approvals.

Resolve the logistics while rooms can still change

A room schedule alone does not show how material reaches a workstation, where it waits or how its container leaves again. Tidira works through the material flows with production, logistics, quality and the building team before adjacencies, doors and transfer points are fixed.

For each flow, we establish what enters and leaves, in which container, with which status and under which storage and handling conditions. That work informs room relationships, routes, buffers and equipment choices. Temperature, segregation, cleaning and controlled-area transitions follow the requirements supplied by the responsible specialists.

What you receive

  • Material flows and room relationships

    Flows for receipt, storage, sampling, dispensing, production supply, returns and waste, with routes and handovers included as the mandate requires.

  • Storage and handling requirements

    Load units, storage conditions, segregation, access and buffer requirements, with manual and automated options assessed against the eligible materials.

  • Building and system interfaces

    Logistics inputs for space and access coordination, alongside material identity, handling-unit labels, status events and responsibilities across ERP, MES, WMS and equipment.

  • Supplier requirements and logistics tests

    Functional requirements, supplier scope and comparisons, plus logistics tests and preparation for operation within the agreed mandate. Tests address movements, handovers and exception procedures.

Experience in production logistics

Tidira's work on a Swiss life-science manufacturing building includes goods receipt, short-term storage, sampling, dispensing, frozen materials, hazardous-liquid interfaces, waste and production handovers. The logistics work connects these activities to room adjacencies, routes, storage conditions and system responsibilities.

The planning team uses these logistics inputs to coordinate the rooms, equipment and system handovers. Quality, building and other specialist requirements are resolved with the responsible disciplines.

Working with your quality and planning teams

Tidira is responsible for the intralogistics planning agreed in its mandate. It does not own GMP compliance, quality or material-release decisions, cleanroom classification, qualification, validation or formal GMP deliverables. Those remain with the client and appointed specialist functions. Architecture, building services, fire protection and occupational safety likewise remain with their responsible disciplines.

The logistics plan must reflect their requirements. If a release rule, temperature condition or segregation requirement is unresolved, its effect on routes, storage and system behaviour must be settled with the responsible function.

Illustrative logistics example

A temperature-controlled material awaiting sampling

For this example, assume the client's quality requirements restrict storage conditions and use before release. The logistics design must account for both the material and its status.

  1. 01

    Before the move

    Define the container, identification, permitted destination and required handling conditions. Assign which system provides the current status.

  2. 02

    At sampling

    Coordinate the route, waiting space and handover. Establish who handles the material and how the sample and remaining quantity are identified.

  3. 03

    On return to storage

    Define the destination, stock update and permitted next movement. Include an exception for a missing identification or unavailable destination.

Product conditions, release rules and approvals for the actual project come from the responsible specialists.

Technical note: comparing two warehouse concepts

Practical questions

Can Tidira plan logistics in a GMP-regulated facility?

Yes. The scope covers material flows, storage, handling and building and system interfaces affected by the facility's requirements. It does not include direct GMP tasks, qualification, validation or quality approvals.

When should the logistics planner join?

Before room adjacencies, routes, storage concepts and supplier boundaries are fixed. A later entry is possible, but the first review must establish which building decisions, contracts and interfaces can still change.

What is needed for an initial scope proposal?

The project phase, production context, material and container types, known storage and segregation requirements, available plans and relevant dates. Identify the quality and planning contacts who can resolve missing requirements.

Define the logistics planning scope

Send the facility context, current planning phase and the flows or interfaces that need attention. Fabian will review the scope with you and your planning team.

fabian.ecker@tidira.com+41 76 379 2919