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Serialization & Track-and-Trace: Page 58
Pharmaceuticals
Serialization readiness: What about my partial containers?
When implementing serialization, it’s important to consider handling partial containers.
January 31, 2014
Labeling/Printing
Lessons learned: On the packaging line
Here are actual lessons learned about what actually happens in the plant and on the line, from those who have conducted live supply chain pilot tests.
January 20, 2014
Robotics/Automation
Lessons learned: Project and vendor management
Here are some key lessons learned from those who have conducted live supply chain pilot tests. This article focuses on lessons learned about project and vendor management.
January 19, 2014
Supply Chain
How GS1 can help with pilot testing
GS1 US offers a 2105 Readiness Pilot program that offers a simple approach for initiating and managing pilots.
January 18, 2014
Labeling/Printing
Preflighting your supply chain pilot
Once you start shipping live product as part of a pilot test, it is not easy to revert back into test mode.
January 18, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Getting started with pilot tests
Once you’ve identified your goals, you should start giving thought to selecting one or more sites, lines, SKUs, vendor technologies, and trading partners for your pilot test(s).
January 17, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Avoid these EPCIS interoperability pitfalls
One of the greatest challenges facing the pharmaceutical supply chain is hooking up multiple ERP systems and business applications across the supply chain, spanning the manufacturer, contract packager, wholesaler/distributor, and pharmacies. Ensuring interoperability of the data across the supply chain is a challenge, even if all parties adopt GS1’s EPCIS standard.
January 12, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Issues with master data
Trading partners with whom you exchange EPCIS event data will request what is known as “supply chain master data” about your products, company, and locations that will be referenced in EPCIS events. This data takes two basic forms.
January 11, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Case study: Contract packager builds its own serialization solution
CMO/CPOs faced with a global client base, obligations to meet multiple and varied country regulations, and the insane complexity of integrating with multiple customers would do well to heed the story of Almac Pharma Services.
January 10, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Five implementation tips for CMO/CPOs
One of the biggest challenges that CMO/CPOs will face when it comes to serializing their lines is how to sort through the complexity of integrating their internal serialization solution at the line and plant level with their customers’ business systems.
January 10, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Determining goals and metrics for pilot testing
There are two schools of thought when it comes to pilot testing.
January 10, 2014
Traceability/Serialization
Contract manufacturing and contract packaging strategic considerations
It’s become a fact of life that the North American pharmaceutical industry, while still firmly rooted in manufacturing of its own products, also makes heavy use of outsourcing to contract manufacturing/contract packaging organizations.
January 8, 2014
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