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How Brocacef Ensures Quality in Medicine Distribution with Bluerock TMS

See how Brocacef uses Bluerock TMS to manage temperature-controlled medicine distribution, automate route planning, and ensure quality and compliance across its healthcare network. 

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About Brocacef

Brocacef operates a highly demanding healthcare distribution network, delivering medicines and medical supplies every night to pharmacies, healthcare institutions, and healthcare consumers. In this environment, timely delivery matters, but product quality and temperature control matter even more. For Brocacef, transport execution must combine speed, precision, compliance, and full visibility across every shipment.

THE CHALLENGE

Managing Time-Critical, Temperature-Sensitive Healthcare Distribution

Brocacef’s transport operation requires tight coordination between distribution centers, four transport hubs, drivers, refrigerated compartments, and route planners. Once a shipment is prepared, it must be registered, coded correctly, routed to the right hub, sorted quickly, and delivered according to strict delivery instructions, often before opening hours. At the same time, pharmaceutical distribution must remain compliant with GDP requirements for temperature-controlled transport.

The complexity increases because Brocacef combines a fixed daily round for pharmacies and hospitals with a variable round for healthcare consumers and other institutions. That means planners must continuously balance route length, driving-time regulations, vehicle capacity, and shipment volume without losing control over product quality.

Temperature-sensitive transport compliance

Medicines and medical supplies must remain within strict temperature thresholds throughout transport and hub handling.

 
Operational pressure across hubs and vehicles

Shipments must move quickly through four transport hubs while respecting handling time and temperature procedures.

 
Need for real-time visibility and control

Brocacef needs to monitor not only delivery progress, but also temperature performance, compliance, and execution quality across the entire network.

 
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THE SOLUTION

A Last Mile Platform Built for Pharmaceutical Precision

Bluerock TMS helps Brocacef manage the full last-mile distribution process through one connected platform. As soon as an order is ready for shipment, the system automatically registers it and assigns the correct three-digit route code. That code is printed on the shipping label, allowing shipments to be sorted immediately upon arrival at one of the transport hubs. This creates a faster, more reliable flow from distribution center to route execution.

The system also supports planners during nightly operations. Around midnight, Bluerock TMS checks each route area for shipments to fixed addresses and automatically proposes the daily fixed round. It then suggests the variable morning plan, while still allowing the planner to make the final decision based on route duration, driving-time regulations, available space, and shipment volume.

For drivers, Bluerock TMS delivers route planning directly to the mobile device together with all operational instructions required to complete deliveries correctly. This includes information such as alarm codes, delivery-specific handling instructions, and where goods must be placed. The result is a more standardized and reliable execution process from first stop to last.

Most importantly, Bluerock TMS enables Brocacef to monitor temperature throughout the distribution process. The platform receives continuous data from temperature sensors in transport hubs and vehicles. If a refrigerated cell or vehicle compartment remains below 2°C or above 8°C for 15 minutes, the system triggers an automatic alert and displays the mandatory step-by-step procedure that must be completed before the alarm stops.

The platform also enforces temperature-related handling procedures operationally. Refrigerated products arriving at a transport hub must be placed in the refrigerated cell within ten minutes, and once removed, they must be loaded within ten minutes. Every movement is registered through scans in Bluerock TMS, making compliance measurable and traceable. Loading is only possible when the vehicle has reached the required temperature; otherwise, the mobile device warns the driver acoustically and loading must wait.

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THE RESULTS

Full Control Over Quality, Compliance, and Distribution Execution

With Bluerock TMS, Brocacef has built a transport operation where planning, shipment handling, routing, monitoring, and feedback are managed through one backbone system. This gives the organization a higher level of transparency for internal teams and clients alike, while ensuring that medicine quality always takes priority over speed when required.


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Automated route coding and sorting

Shipments are automatically assigned to the correct delivery area, accelerating hub sorting and reducing manual effort.

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GDP-aligned temperature monitoring

Continuous sensor data, automated alerts, and enforced handling workflows help protect product quality throughout the distribution chain.

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Planner-assisted route optimization

Bluerock TMS proposes fixed and variable routes while leaving final operational control to the planner.

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End-to-end operational transparency

Brocacef can monitor trips for timeliness and temperature, provide feedback to clients, and maintain a stronger control layer across the network.

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Standardized KPI reporting
Dashboards and approved cost data create a stronger basis for analysis, reporting, and future ERP integration.
6
CO2-ready logistics data
Detailed data on freight weight and travel distance creates a stronger foundation for tracking emissions and supporting future reduction goals.

Built for regulated healthcare distribution

500 Route Areas
4 Transport hubs
2°C–8°C Temperature Range
10 Minutes Handling Window
Maron de Boer – Business Development Manager, Brocacef

"Bluerock TMS is the backbone of Brocacef Transport. We do everything with this system."

 

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Why Bluerock TMS for Healthcare & Life Sciences

For pharmaceutical and healthcare distribution, transport performance is about much more than on-time delivery. It requires strict temperature control, compliance with GDP procedures, operational traceability, and the ability to act immediately when quality is at risk. Brocacef shows how Bluerock TMS helps healthcare logistics teams combine execution speed with product integrity and full operational visibility.
 
Brocacef’s success demonstrates how Bluerock TMS helps healthcare distribution leaders:

- Standardize temperature-sensitive last-mile operations
- Gain real-time control over routes, hubs, and vehicles
- Enforce compliance through scan-based workflows
- Improve transparency for internal teams and clients
- Build a stronger foundation for continuous innovation

Ready to Optimize Healthcare Distribution?

Talk to one of our experts and discover how Bluerock TMS can help you improve temperature control, compliance, visibility, and execution quality across your healthcare logistics network.

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