GDP - Good Distribution Practices

GDP in Practice – Transportation, Temperature, and Compliance

How do you ensure that medicinal products maintain their quality throughout the entire distribution chain—even when transportation involves temperature fluctuations, transshipments, different modes of transport, and third-party providers?

In this one-day course,you’ll gain a practical understanding of Good Distribution Practice (GDP) and how the requirements are translated into decisions within the real-world distribution chain. You’ll not only get an overview of the requirements—you’ll also gain an understanding of how to apply them in practice.

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Who can participate?

This course is relevant if you work with the handling, storage, or distribution of pharmaceuticals—or if you are responsible for making, documenting, or quality-assuring decisions regarding these activities.

This course is relevant both for those new to GDP and for those who already work in the field and wish to consolidate or update their understanding.

For example, if you work with:

QA and Quality
Validation and Qualification
Logistics
Supply Chain
Inventory
Transportation
Engineering

Course overview

Confirm Knowledge Center
Havnevej 1, 4000 Roskilde
Danish

The teaching material will be in Danish.
Teaching will be in Danish.

Prerequisites to participate

No special qualifications are required to participate.

Course Dates Overview

Date and time Location Language Duration Price
November 25, 2026 Confirm Knowledge Center Danish 1 day DKK 5,500 excl. VAT

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Good Distribution Practice

When quality must be maintained every step of the way

When a drug leaves the manufacturing facility, responsibility for its quality does not end. The product must continue to be stored, handled, and transported under conditions that ensure its quality and integrity are maintained throughout the entire distribution chain.

In practice, the supply chain can be complex. Transportation may involve various modes of transport, transshipments, temporary storage, external suppliers, and changing temperature and climate conditions. Therefore, GDP is not just about transportation—it is about being able to document that the product has been under control throughout the entire process.

In this course, we will explore the relationship between GDP requirements, the quality system, and the practical challenges that arise during the distribution of pharmaceuticals.

Among other things, you will gain an understanding of how temperature control, qualification and validation, mapping, monitoring, risk assessment, and auditing contribute to a robust and compliant supply chain.

Course information

Teaching method

The course combines theory with discussion and real-world problems from the industry.

We address the situations that arise when GDP is put into practice:

How do we ensure the correct temperature during transport? Where should the temperature loggers be placed? When is mapping necessary? What needs to be qualified or validated? How do we assess the risk of a temperature deviation? And how do we document that our solution is under control?

Among other things, the course material focuses specifically on the placement of temperature loggers and on risk assessment of temperature deviations during transport.

This makes it easier to link the GDP requirements to the decisions and issues you encounter in your daily work.

Course highlights

On the course you will achieve:

Understanding GDP in Context
Understand the key GDP principles and their importance for product quality and patient safety.
Identify Risks
Identify critical points and typical risks in the transportation and distribution chain.
Understanding Temperature Control
Understand the principles behind temperature-controlled transport, mapping, monitoring, and the placement of data loggers.
Understanding Transportation Solutions
Gain insight into active and passive temperature-controlled transport systems and the factors that influence their selection and use.
Understanding Qualification and Validation
Understand why and how transportation solutions are qualified and validated.
Risk-Based Work
Be better equipped to contribute to risk assessments, audits, and GDP-related decisions.




Course program

Fundamental Principles and Legal Basis
Introduction to GDP, the purpose of the requirements, and their significance for product quality and patient safety.
Quality Systems
Documentation and SOPs, traceability, record-keeping, risk management, quality control, auditing, and training.
Transportation
The transportation and distribution chain, various modes of transportation, and the risks that may arise along the way.
Temperature Control
Temperature-sensitive products, as well as active and passive temperature-controlled transport systems. The course material covers, among other things, passive systems, insulation, and the use of PCM.
Qualification and validation
The principles underlying the qualification and validation of transportation solutions and documentation demonstrating that transportation conditions are under control.
Mapping and Monitoring
Temperature mapping, monitoring, data loggers, and logger placement.
Risk Assessment
How risks are identified, assessed, and documented. The course covers, among other things, FMEA/FMECA, FTA, HACCP, HAZOP, and PHA.
Audit
Audits as part of the GDP quality system and as a tool for ensuring control over processes and stakeholders in the distribution chain.

After the course

You’ll leave the course with a comprehensive overview of GDP and a better understanding of how the requirements fit together throughout the distribution chain.

You’ll be better equipped to identify risks, ask the right questions, and contribute effectively to decisions regarding transportation, temperature control, mapping, monitoring, qualification, validation, and quality systems.

The goal isn’t for you to be able to recite the GDP rules.

The goal is for you to be able to apply them.

Testimonials from learners

Course participant in Introduction to GAMP 5
Really good and professionally strong presentation. The trainer found the right professional level for the group and initiated good tasks and resulting discussions. And super with small breaks every hour.
Course participant in Introduction to GAMP 5
Many thanks and much praise to Katrine! As a teacher, you are present, relevant, a skilled communicator and very pleasant. You manage to bring your experience from both teaching and practice into play in the context in which we ask the questions.
Course participant in Introduction to GAMP 5
I think it was good to mix the theory and the practical part. The teacher was super good at explaining and super good at pulling out examples that supported the theory.
Course participant in Data Integrity
The benefit of the course is a quick and processed approach to the ISPE guide.
Course participant in Data Integrity
It was a great course that lived up to all expectations. Super good teacher 🙂
Course participant in Data Integrity
Really good course... even after many hours you are still in it... course leader can maintain focus and interest
Student in SattLine Programming
A good structure of course material and balance between theoretical material and exercises. The theoretical parts gives food room for more in depth questions of interested.
Student in SattLine Programming
Very motivated course-responsible, very pationate and patient.
Course participant in Data Integrity
Good with exercises and quizzes. Good location and delicious food/catering.
Student in SattLine Programming
Super teacher 👍😁

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