SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS

Visibility in the supply chain is an integral part of every pharmaceutical company’s business model in bringing drugs to market quickly. With the search for the next blockbuster drug being paramount, the issue of counterfeiting is on the forefront of everyone’s minds.
 Counterfeiting is a global issue but with new initiatives, regulatory requirements, FDA guidelines and standards development, will the revolution of RFID be the key to addressing companies concerns?

 Next Generation Pharmaceutical will be looking at how the implementation of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in the supply chain can regulate pharmaceutical fraud and the risks involved with implementing such a technology into an existing supply chain.

Focus Issues

-Radio Frequency Identification
-Clinical Trial Logistics
-Supply Chain Management Software
-Supply Chain Visibility
-Supply Chain Planning & Execution
-Inventory Optimization Solutions
-Supplier Performance Management

 

Taking the pain out of package management
By Bryan D Stolle, Agile
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Faking it
Drug counterfeiting is an enormous problem in developing countries with up to 40 percent of drugs suspected as fake.
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Tracking counterfeit drugs
Counterfeit drugs are not a new phenomenon; what is new is the scale and sophistication of the counterfeit drug operation, argues Nigel Layton, founder and CEO of leading corporate security and professional intelligence consultancy Quest.
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Is RFID pharma’s magic pill?
Bruce Hudson, Programme Director for Technology Research Services at META Group, says it?s not as simple as that ?¬ but does admit that ?we?re only now at the tip of the iceberg for what RFID is going to do.?
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The Pharmacy
Dispensing sound business advice to Europe?s drug industry
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Thermodynamics and heat exchanges in refrigerated packaging
The so-called ?cold chain? allows manufacturers and distributors to keep the temperature of a product as close as possible to its storage temperature, through its transportation to the final destination.
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Meeting new FDA regulations: supplying the full package
Product safety drives the pharmaceutical industry ? and Sigpack Systems? pharmaceutical clients must abide by and, in many cases, be one step ahead of FDA mandates.
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Small but perfectly formed
Apart from being secure, dataloggers must be rugged, reliable and cost-efficient. The thermochron and hydrochron iButtons from Dallas Semiconductor/Maxim are such devices.
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Cold seal banding
Tamper proof + legislation benefits
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