Pharmaceutical Logistics Association of South Africa.
THE ESSENTIAL LINK IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY.
Distributors
Act as manufacturers’ agents, as such, Distributors earn a negotiated ‘distribution fee’. As agents Distributors never own their principals’ products.
Wholesalers
Are independent businesses who purchase stock and take legal title, thereby owning the products they sell.
Logistics Service Providers
“Physical work in the production of a commodity is more easily understood than the invisible enhancement of value through moving goods through time and space, which is the function of the middleman.” – Dr. Thomas Sowell
Channels of the distribution exist to move products from the manufacturer to the consumer.
OUR PURPOSE
What we strive for
LATEST NEWS
Cold Chain
Providing a Cold Chain service has, over time, become an increasingly important part of the service provided by the pharmaceutical distribution sector.
Vaccines
Throughout the second half of 2021, and to the present time, PLASA has worked closely with the government, the ICPA and Medikredit to set up a mechanism …
Upscheduling of Codeine
PLASA is and has been an active member of the Codeine Care initiative A few years ago it was realised globally, and in South Africa, that the growing and extensive misuse …
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