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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
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
Perrigo—propelled by AGVs and organizational readiness
Attention to detail, excellent use of controls and information technology, and a keen appreciation for ‘the people element’ are the foundation of this automation initiative.
January 14, 2014
AGV styles. One function of the Forked Straddle AGV is to bring pallet loads of in-process or finished goods from 29 packaging lines.
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
Robotics/Automation
Line- and plant-level software implications
While GS1’s Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) protocol standardizes the way serialization data is transmitted between trading partners, there is no such standard for communicating between a company’s internal serialization solution and its Manufacturing Execution System (MES), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems such as SAP, and ERP modules that handle serial number management (such as Aii in the case of SAP). And therein lies the rub.
January 8, 2014
Packaging/Filling
Schwabe North America banks on stock optimization
Stock optimization analysis helps pharmaceutical company customize its spare parts handling process after relocating from Utah to Wisconsin.
January 7, 2014
The individually tailored balance between stocking on site and ordering via the E-Portal helped to improve planning procedures and also reduced the risk of downtime.
Pharmaceuticals
Preventing counterfeit e-pedigree data
Although many people may think of serialization and e-pedigree as the industry’s final checkmate in the counterfeit arms race, nothing could be further from the truth.
January 7, 2014
Robotics/Automation
How to avoid the leading zero issue
There are a number of layers of software systems involved in serialization: line- and plant-level serialization systems, ERP-level serial number management systems, and network-facing EPCIS systems.
January 7, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
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.
January 6, 2014
Materials
E-pedigree models and the U.S. drug supply chain
The debate over pedigree regulatory models in the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain often centers on how much data for each package of drugs needs to be moved between trading partners as those drugs physically move through the supply chain.
January 6, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Impact on production/operations workflows
Pharmaceutical companies are finding that the cost to upgrade a typical packaging line for serialization runs at around $1 million, give or take. With that level of investment, it’s only natural to focus on the equipment and engineering changes involved in reconfiguring the line itself.
January 5, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Questions to ask your CMO/CPO about serialization
While the focus of many pharmaceutical manufacturers is on their own internal infrastructure, it’s prudent for manufacturers to begin surveying their contract manufacturing and contract packaging organizations for serialization readiness.
January 5, 2014
Packaging/Filling
Robotic cartoning adds efficiency, subtracts labor costs
Robotic cartoning replaces manual operations, alleviating labor shortages, costs, and increasing line efficiency for contract manufacturer Pharmalab Inc.
January 3, 2014
TWO POUCHES. Two unoriented pouches are picked up by an AFA Delta 3 robot, which then places them into a loading funnel.
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