Customer stories: Brocacef

Reliability comes first

In healthcare logistics, there is little room for error. Temperature-sensitive products such as medicines, vaccines and medical devices must remain within strict conditions throughout transport. Monitoring those conditions is essential to maintaining quality, compliance and patient safety.

For Brocacef, the starting point was clear: improve visibility and control throughout the supply chain without compromising reliability. As Paul Schuttenbeld, Manager Sales & Business Development at Brocacef, explains: “At Brocacef Healthcare Logistics, we continuously look for innovations that help us provide the highest level of quality and reliability to our customers.” Tapp’s paper-based data loggers help achieve exactly that.

Reducing waste

Paul: “Innovation should do more than optimise logistics. It should also improve sustainability outcomes.” Traditional single-use data loggers often contain plastic housings, batteries and electronic components. Many are used for a single shipment before being discarded. Tapp was developed to challenge that model.

By replacing bulky hardware with a lightweight paper-based design, Tapp reduces e-waste by up to 90% while maintaining the performance required for highly regulated supply chains. After use, the labels can be processed through standard paper recycling streams, significantly reducing electronic waste compared to traditional alternatives.

The result is a solution that improves visibility and control while supporting broader sustainability goals.

Building a healthier supply chain

Sustainability plays an increasingly important role within Brocacef’s wider strategy. Alongside efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and minimise waste, the organisation continues to look for practical innovations that help make healthcare logistics more sustainable.

The introduction of paper-based data loggers is one example of that approach. As Paul explains: “With innovations like these, we are taking important steps towards a more efficient and sustainable healthcare supply chain.”

For Tapp, this partnership represents an important milestone. Not only because of Brocacef’s scale and position within the healthcare sector, but because it demonstrates something bigger: sustainability and reliability do not have to compete with each other.

Together, we are helping build a healthcare supply chain that is both highly reliable and significantly lighter on the planet.