
The healthcare, life sciences and pharmaceutical sectors face a lot of challenges in their manufacturing, operations and supply chain management processes. The US Food and Drugs Administration insist that companies implement track and trace systems to improve the security of prescription drugs to customers. Counterfeit drugs are major problem and accounted for $75 billion in revenue in 2010 according to the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. Implementing electronic track and trace for prescription drugs with serialization will reduce the counterfeit products over a period of time.
Serialization or Unique identification helps us to identify who manufactured the product, which wholesaler has sold to retailers or hospitals and to which customer it has been prescribed. The implementation of serialization and track and trace provides the ability to track and trace the lifecycle of the drugs in the system end-to-end. The US Food and Drugs Administration sets some standards to ensure safe manufacturing and distribution of prescription drugs. The US Food and Drug Administration requires an e-pedigree electronic document which documents the full history of particular or entire batches that are manufactured and then prescribed to patients. The e-pedigree helps to prevent the prescription drug from being misbranded, sold after expiry, counterfeited, diverted, stolen and/or contaminated. All manufacturers, wholesalers, repackagers, OEM’s and pharmacies must comply with the e-pedigree requirements and submit prescription drug information, source and destination, how and when it was prescribed to a customer, to the e-pedigree system.
A track and trace system improves security by:
Track and trace works in the following ways:
EPCIS is a GS1 standard that enables companies to capture, update and share information about the products end-to-end in the supply chain life cycle.
The following links provide details of different manufacturers of track and trace and serialization software
The following are strong reasons for implementing the SAP track and trace solution:
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