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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
Materials
Business process considerations for mixing serialized with non-serialized shipments
You might need to implement special business processes for handling serialized versus non-serialized shipment processing with your supply chain partners during piloting.
January 5, 2014
Traceability/Serialization
Validation considerations for serialization
As a rule of thumb, validation adds 25% to the cost of any changes required by serialization.
January 4, 2014
Traceability/Serialization
Impact on production line speeds and OEE
Of utmost concern to production/operations teams is the impact serialization will have on production line speeds.
January 4, 2014
Pharmaceuticals
Label and panel redesign considerations
Often left out of the equation in early pilot tests, many package design professionals have discovered the hard way that serialization has a deep impact on labels and panel design.
December 30, 2013
Labeling/Printing
How to avoid a big barcode gotcha
With mass-produced packaging, barcodes are preprinted as part of the package artwork. As such, no one has had to really worry about whether those codes will scan throughout the supply chain.
December 29, 2013
Inspection
Vision system considerations
One of the key considerations for vision systems pertains to the industry’s predominant use of round bottles.
December 29, 2013
Labeling/Printing
Nine coding and markingconsiderations for serialization
While the long arm of serialization reaches deep across multiple silos in the organization, one could say it starts with the physical code applied to the package. There are several things to consider.
December 29, 2013
Packaging/Filling
Strategies for accurate aggregation
The actual electronic association of the serial numbers of individual unit packages to a case is done after an inspection system on the packaging line visually inspects individual packages (or they are manually scanned) upon going into the shipping case.
December 28, 2013
Pharmaceuticals
Inference: The importance of aggregation accuracy
Pedigree laws that mandate unit-level serialization, like the California pedigree law, require members of the supply chain to certify shipment and receipt using unit-level serial numbers.
December 27, 2013
Inspection
Packaging line modifications for serialization
Line serialization, while a significant investment in time and money, is less strategically taxing than sharing the data internally from each line and plant up through the enterprise, and with your trading partners.
December 27, 2013
Pharmaceuticals
11 routinely underestimated aspects of serialization
While there are untold gotchas in any project, here are the areas that are most overlooked or shortchanged, based on feedback from those who’ve been there.
December 26, 2013
Pharmaceuticals
11 steps to getting started with serialization
Ready to begin? Here’s a roadmap of how to get started.
December 26, 2013
Robotics/Automation
Secrets to serialization project management
Serialization involves multiple, complex technology components—package execution controllers, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), PLCs, machine vision, sensors, scanners, encoding, inspection and verification systems—all feeding information to complex IT layers—device-level, line-level, plant-level, enterprise, networked to outside trading partners.
December 26, 2013
Traceability/Serialization
Staffing for success: Building a proper serialization team
Serialization requires input both at the planning stage and during execution from multiple departments as well as external trading partners.
December 22, 2013
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