Enterprise pharma
Enterprise pharma: Stop writing off product that's still good
For manufacturers with global distribution: continuous monitoring, quality records that close automatically, and intervention before a deviation becomes a discarded batch.
The challenges
Six points where a pharma supply chain quietly loses product
After the shipment
Before shipment
Lane qualification that quietly expired
The lane was qualified on a handful of test shipments. Since then, the carrier has changed, the routing has changed, and two seasons have passed. Nobody has the budget to requalify with new test shipments, so the qualification simply stands.
Our solution
Lane qualification kept current with AI Intelligence, using data from every shipment.
Before shipment
Packaging specified for the worst case
With no lane history, the safe answer is always more: heavier shippers, more dry ice, more freight weight. It is insurance bought in cash on every shipment, including all the lanes that never needed it, and you never find out which ones those were.
Our solution
AI Intelligence matches packaging to the real risk on each lane.
During shipment
Temperature excursions during transport
Product drifts outside its defined temperature range while it is on the move: a delayed transfer, a shipper left on the tarmac, a reefer that fails overnight. If the data is only read at destination, the excursion has already run its course and the only decision left is release or scrap.
Our solution
Pick the lowest-risk route before dispatch.
Our MARS team intervenes in real time, 24/7/365.
During shipment
Partner performance you cannot measure
Quarterly reviews with forwarders and 3PLs run on their milestone data, which turns the meeting into an exchange of explanations. Holding your own record of what happened to the product changes what that conversation is about.
Our solution
AI Intelligence shows where on the journey excursions start, lane by lane.
After shipment
Manual releases piling up
Every shipment in quarantine waits for a qualified person to work through its temperature file before the product can move. The queue grows with volume rather than with risk, so shipments on the busiest lanes wait longest, and the people doing the reading are exactly the ones you least want spending their day on it.
Our solution
Conforming shipments are released automatically.
After shipment
Scrapping product that data could have saved
Most excursions are recoverable against stability data, but running that argument needs a granular profile of what happened: how far outside, for how long, at which point in the journey. The same gap works the other way too, and releasing product that should have been held is a recall conversation rather than a cost line.
Our solution
Stability data is applied automatically to save recoverable product.
What a managed solution means
Not software you are left to run. We stay on it with you
Most monitoring is assembled: a device from one supplier, software from another, and your own people watching the dashboard. We provide all three, from the first pilot lane through global rollout, and on every shipment after that.
Services
The team that stays on it with you.
- Device managementReturns and inventory
- MARS24/7/365 monitoring
- ImplementationPilot lane to global
- TrainingRole-specific
- AnalyticsLane and excursion
- Support24/7/365 global
Device portfolio
Devices that monitor the entire supply chain, from pallets to units
Saga device
Pallet to box · Reports on its own
A reusable cellular device for pallets and boxes. It reports temperature, location, and light events in real time, and is returned to us for servicing before it goes out again.
- Standard−20 to +50 °C
- Arctic−30 to +30 °C
- Dry Ice−95 to +50 °C
- Cryogenic−200 to +50 °C
Dry Ice and Cryogenic measure through the PR-T80 probe.
Saga Card
Pallet to secondary package · Reports on its own
A cellular tracker smaller than a credit card that travels inside the carton, so you keep visibility once the pallet is split. It reports location, and temperature where the use case needs it.
AI-generated image
BLE label
Box to carton · Needs a reader or parent
A label for the carton that keeps its own log. A gateway or the Controlant App reads it at each handover, so you have evidence of an excursion or tampering, even when a device isn't returned.
Passive indicator
Carton to unit or dose · Needs a reader or parent
The WarmMark QR indicator: single use and battery free, down to the single pack. Scanning its code on receipt shows whether it was exposed above its limit, and our integration, in development, brings that reading into the Controlant platform.
The platform, layer by layer
One platform for every data source
The platform, layer by layer
One platform for every data source
- Layer 1Data capture
L1Data capture: Every source, one record
Data from Controlant devices and any third-party source, captured in real time and made available to every layer.
- Saga devices
- 3rd party IoT
- Carrier milestones
- Enterprise systems
- Layer 2Value-added data structures
L2Value-added data structures: Lanes and sites: readings in context
Every measurement comes with context from lanes to assets. Your teams and AI can use it without an IT project.
- Sites
- Locations
- Lanes
- Storage
- Assets
- Layer 3Access layer
L3Access layer: Access the data in a way that works for you
Share, stream, or integrate your data, your way.
- Alerts
- APIs
- Data streaming
- SDK
- MCP
- Layer 4Pharma layer
L4Pharma layer: Condition data that becomes a release decision
GxP-grade workflows that turn condition data into release decisions.
- Product release
- Product Stability Automation
- GxP validation
- End-to-end visibility
- Cascading stability
- Layer 5Specialized applications
L5Specialized applications: The views your teams run on
Purpose-built views for daily supply chain and quality operations.
- Control Tower
- Command Center
- White-label
Sustainability
Sustainable because every device comes back to be used again
86%
lower carbon emissions per use than a single-use logger. Controlant collects, inspects, recharges and recalibrates the devices, so the saving holds trip after trip.
- 93.6%of devices recovered since 2023 under Controlant-managed returns
- 6.4average uses of a device in 2026, up from 3.7 in 2022
- 97.5%of 2026 trips were on a reused device
Externally rated, not self-declared. EcoVadis Silver, in the top 15% of rated companies · an SBTi-validated target of −42% Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030, with Scope 1 and 2 down 33% and Scope 3 down 41% in 2025 · 93% renewable energy.
Emissions from the Controlant life-cycle assessment (Saga device, 2023) per ISO 14040/14044. Fleet figures from a live customer fleet, 2022 to 2026. Corporate figures from the Controlant 2025 Annual ESG Report.
What pharma companies have achieved with us
Roche
Joint presentation
Pfizer
Case study
99.99%
successful delivery rate for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in its first two years
GSK
White paper
AI in the pharma cold chain is only as good as the data under it
AbbVie
Joint presentation
MSD
Joint webinar
Every shipment in transit rerouted, rebooked or held safely when conflict hit its routes
Questions about Enterprise pharma
How does a pilot start?
Start with one lane, running alongside your current monitoring, so you can compare two records of the same shipments. Devices arrive calibrated and configured to your temperature limits, and within the first few shipments the lane has a profile you can build a business case on.
Is the platform validated, and what does that mean for us?
Yes: to FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and EU GMP Annex 11, under ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001, with the audit trail always on. GxP compliance stays yours; we give you a validated system to rely on inside it.
What happens when a shipment excurses?
An alarm is raised against the shipment's temperature limits, and our Monitoring and Response team acts on your quality team's work instructions while the product can still be saved. The intervention is logged on the same record as the shipment.
Can we get the data into our own systems?
Yes. Saga devices, third-party loggers, your ERP, TMS and WMS, and carrier milestones all land in one structure: pull it through the validated Integrations API, push it to your TMS, ERP or QMS by webhook, or receive it in your data lake daily through delta sharing.
Start with a pilot lane, or test the device first
A pilot runs one of your lanes end to end with our team, alongside the monitoring you use today. If you would rather start smaller, Controlant Go puts two pre-configured Saga devices on your shipments, free of charge and with nothing to implement.