enVista Announces Strategic Partnership With Modality Solutions

enVista Announces Strategic Partnership With Modality Solutions

Alliance brings robust biopharmaceutical cold chain solutions & expansion of enVista’s cold chain capabilities.

Indianapolis, IN; February 17, 2015 – enVista, a leading supply chain consulting and IT services firm, announced today it is partnering with Modality Solutions, a solution provider that integrates cold chain management systems for highly regulated industries. The partnership creates a powerful biopharmaceutical cold chain offering, coupling enVista’s exceptionally deep supply chain expertise with Modality Solutions’ innovative cold chain and packaging optimization solutions.

For cold chain companies, Modality Solutions provides insight into cold chain thermal package engineering, transport validation, and controlled-environment logistics. The company’s Advantage Transport Simulation Laboratory™ is validated to current cGMP standards and is the only independent, third party transport simulation lab in the world. Package simulation testing serves to define and minimize or eliminate transportation’s five environmental hazards – temperature, humidity, pressure, shock and vibration throughout the supply chain.

enVista’s expertise covers all areas across the extended supply chain, including global supply chain network design, strategic facility design, international and domestic transportation management, labor management, and supporting supply chain and execution technology.

enVista President and CEO Jim Barnes said, “There are several synergies between enVista and Modality Solutions and, more importantly, significant opportunities to drive additional value for our shared cold chain clients. We look forward to expanding how we jointly help our clients manage their cold chains. Together, we are providing some of the most robust best-of-breed cold chain services and solutions in the industry.”

Modality Solutions President Gary Hutchinson said, “Today’s biopharmaceutical cold chain requires comprehensive one-source supply chain management for true optimization. enVista has a proven track record of deploying supply chain and enterprise solutions as well as synchronizing all of the information generated during the process. We are pleased to bring our cold chain consulting, process validation, and thermal package engineering design experience to help expand enVista’s supply chain services, as well as our own.”

Combined, the companies’ principals bring more than a hundred years of pharmaceutical and life science experience to the alliance.

About Modality Solutions
Modality Solutions delivers integrated cold chain management solutions for highly regulated industries. It enhances clients’ reputations by ensuring regulatory compliance, product quality, and consumer safety around the globe. Its Advantage Transportation Simulation Laboratory™ concurrently tests the effects of environmental hazards on products. Key areas of service are: ensure regulatory compliance; deliver cold chain thermal packaging design/qualification and controlled-environment logistics solutions; decrease development cycle times for a faster route-to-market; and develop transport validation strategies to support global regulatory applications.
www.modality-solutions.com

About enVista
enVista is a leading supply chain consulting and IT services firm, delivering innovative solutions that improve profitability, enhance customer service and reduce waste from source to consumption. enVista’s unrivaled consulting experience, deep vertical industry expertise and comprehensive solutions portfolio, enable clients to leverage one strategic partner that consults, implements and operates across Supply Chain, Transportation, Retail, IT and ERP.
www.envistacorp.com

For more information about enVista, please call 877-684-7700 FREE or contact info@envistacorp.com.
PRESS CONTACT: Jessica Money, (317) 208-9100 x322, jmoney@envistacorp.com

For more information about Modality Solutions, please call 888-219-6317 or contact info@modality-solutions.com.
PRESS CONTACT: Susan Almon-Pesch, (858) 205-0516, sue@speschialpr.com