Technical and specialized Handling

We have an understanding of the technicalities of handling, procuring, warehousing and movement of pharmaceutical and specialized medicines. This has led us to train our staff appropriately. Health Commodity Management such as antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, tuberculosis, malaria medicines, cold chain items, and test kits calls for technical capacity development and exposure to the personnel dealing with them on a daily basis. Our delivery agents are trained to deliver items appropriately and collect delivery notes in all cases.

To this end, we have chemists, pharmacists, and health commodity supply chain experts leading our team at various levels. Furthermore, with regards to transportation and distribution, our structures are tailored towards sensitive areas of commodity management such as our vehicles which are covered and refrigerated. We also have a comprehensive on-the-road communication and follow up system via telephone and radio structures. Our drivers are literate and are accompanied on trips by literate logistics assistants. However, we are in collaboration with some security agencies to accompany our vehicles across volatile areas.

We are covered and in business with leading insurance companies. Our GIT are updated and wide enough to cover our operations across the length and breadth of the country.

Our offices are open twenty four hours for rapid response and enquiries.

FLEET

We own a fleet of vehicles. In addition to our own fleet, we have access to more vehicles on hire from our partners. Our fleet includes the following:

TONS UNITS
4 10
7 8
15 4
30 2

STAFF STRENGTH & HUMAN CAPITAL

We have a dedicated and well motivated staff strength tailored, trained and assigned to the specific needs of our clients. These members of staff; both permanent and adhoc are skilled in their ability to appropriate the best method of moving consignment based on determining parameters. They include: chemists, logisticians, pharmacists, security personnel, etc.

In all, they constitute a total of twenty five staff located across the six geo-political zones in Nigeria:

• Abuja (North Central)
• Sokoto (North West)
• Maiduguri (North East)
• Awka (South East)
• Calabar (South South)
• Lagos (South West)

INFRASTRUCTURE

To acquire and maintain storage facilities in major business cities in Nigeria.
We maintain a good warehouse in Lagos up to 300sqm, Ibadan 300sqm, Ilorin 150sqm, Lokoja 250sqm, Abuja 400sqm, Kano 300sqm, and also maintain work and collaboration agreements with MDS.

Our warehouses are modernised and comply with international best practises. They are also equipped with up-to-date gadgets and equipments for seamless daily warehousing services.
The warehouses are manned by trained inventory personnel to provide data and information to our clients for informed supply chain decisions.

INVENTORY SOFTWARE

BGLL has efficient and well trained IT personnel in-house. The technical team and the IT team have developed over the years comprehensive inventory software to manage stock and items at different level. We have an IT equipped warehouse that can generate stock report online and share such information to executives and staff at different levels. We manage all our warehouse operation with reliable inventory software and well trained IT and technical staff.

Our IT staffs are very mobile and can adopt and adjust to external warehouse functions and management when required.

We also maintain inventory training experts that could be deployed to clients’ warehouses for training in modern warehouse and inventory techniques.

COLLABORATIONS

We have collaborated with Donor Agencies and International Implementing partners such as United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Center for Disease Control (CDC), DFID, and Society for Family Health (SFH) and Management Sciences for Health. We have a robust working relationship with consumer products manufacturer such as Evans Pharmaceutical Limited, Niemeth Pharmaceutical Limited, Pfizer, Nigerian German Chemical Company (NGC), etc.