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Section: Logistics
Medical Device/Packaging
Comparing/contrasting medical device and food packaging
In this Q&A, Randall Troutman, Account Manager, Printpack Medical, addresses standards, materials issues, sustainability, and workforce development.
April 7, 2014
In this Q&A, Randall Troutman, Account Manager, Printpack Medical, addresses standards, materials issues, sustainability, and workforce development.
Materials
The changing face of clinical trial services
A contract packager examines trends affecting the pharmaceutical industry.
March 12, 2014
BLISTER PACK. This compliance-prompting pack for a clinical trials application includes room for patient initials and date dispensed.
Materials
Live from Cool Chain Europe: The 10 Commandments of temperature-sensitive product supply
Brought down from the mountaintop of experience handling temperature-sensitive products, these 10 commandments summarize best practices in cold-chain logistics.
January 28, 2014
At a well-attended tabletop discussion on day one of the Cool Chain & Controlled Room Temperature Logistics Europe conference in Luxembourg, Laurent Foetisch, Managing Director of Supply Chain Operations SA, shepherded participants through “The ‘Ten Commandments’ for Successful Supply of Temperature-Sensitive Products,” developed by Cold Chain IQ and Kaoutar Sahli Lenstra, Senior Cold Chain and Specialties Analyst for Pfizer and a member of the Industry Advisory Board for this year’s event.
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
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
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