LEMAN recently took part in the TAPA Regional Conference Scandinavia in Stockholm, where Gert Christiansen, Vice President, Pharma & Healthcare, and Jan Wiitanen, Senior Pricing & Product Specialist, shared LEMAN’s perspective on security in pharma and healthcare logistics.
The presentation focused on a clear market development: security is no longer only a cost centre. It is becoming a business enabler and a core requirement for robust supply chains.
For pharma and healthcare logistics, this is especially important. Products are often valuable, sensitive, time-critical and directly linked to patient treatment. That means security incidents can have consequences beyond financial loss, including impact on availability, compliance and trust.
Security requirements are changing
Across Europe, cargo theft, trailer intrusion, hijackings, diesel theft and other security risks are becoming increasingly complex. At the same time, customers are placing greater focus on documented security standards and operational resilience.
During the presentation, LEMAN highlighted how security has moved from the background into the centre of logistics operations. Customers now expect secure delivery, not only on-time delivery.
For LEMAN, becoming the first TAPA TSR1-certified logistics company in the Nordics was approached as a practical operational investment. The aim was to strengthen the overall security setup, support customer requirements and create a common operational framework across countries.
From certification to daily behaviour
In an asset-light logistics model, structure, discipline and partner alignment are essential. TAPA helps create consistency across countries, partners and operations.
But security is also a people issue. It is about drivers feeling safer in their daily work, planners making better risk-based decisions, and operations teams responding quickly when something does not look right.
Looking ahead, LEMAN expects security expectations to keep increasing. High-value industries will continue to require documented standards, and customers will increasingly expect transparency, structure and resilience as part of overall supply chain quality.
In the future, security may no longer be a differentiator in pharma logistics. It may simply be the baseline expectation.