Impact on wholesaler/distributors, pharmacies, clinics, and hospitals

Wholesaler/distributors face an incredible challenge. They will receive data from hundreds of suppliers—and must disseminate it to thousands or tens of thousands of customers—and have to figure out how to manage it all.

A large distributor like AmerisourceBergen receives product from as many as 8,000 OTC and pharma companies.  They break down most cases for outbound shipping, and every single unit of sale is hand-scanned—this is done in as many as 26 different distribution centers.

Distributors are faced with mitigating the impact of serialization on product flow through the distribution facility.  They cannot depend on a system where a human is making decisions about how to manage each product as it moves through the facility; they must automate as much as possible.

One of the biggest issues facing wholesaler/distributors is their ability to depend on the accuracy of aggregation data. The e-pedigree data they receive from manufacturers must match what’s inside those cases—100% of the time. To do this, they must be able to rely on the concept of inference.

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