Open-SCS addresses packaging serialization standard

Aims to accelerate compliance for healthcare counterfeiting regulations.

Addressing compliance to healthcare counterfeiting regulations, the Steering Committee of the Open Serialization Communication Standard Working Group (Open-SCS) announces the accelerated development of an industrial interoperability standard and associated requirements templates for release by the end of 2015.

The scoped work products focus on healthcare packaging serialization interoperability across a plant’s equipment and systems and between the supply chain systems. The Steering Committee is comprised of Abbott, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., Famar Health Care Services, Mylan Pharmaceutical, NNEPharmaplan, SAP AG, OptelVision Inc., Systech International, Werum IT Solutions GmbH, and Antares Vision Srl.

The immediate value for all healthcare providers is the $100,000+ integration specifications for less than $15,000/year. The real ongoing high value grows dramatically through lower lifecycle costs from standards-based change management and global multi-plant/line scalability.

In Sept. 2014, founding Open-SCS members gathered in Frankfurt, Germany as the Open Architecture for Track & Track Group to specifically address the lack of solution standardization for compliance to healthcare packaging serialization regulations. More than 80 healthcare manufacturers, solution providers, track-and-trace suppliers, and consulting companies contributed to this roundtable.

There was a real urgency to develop the standard inter-plant serialization solutions to improve the deployment efficiency and high cost of compliance to the aggressive regulations.

Open-SCS operates as an OPC Foundation partner as a chartered working group with evolving relationships with GS1, Rx-360, ISA, and ISPE, to accelerate work product releases to months and not years.

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