We’ve been covering the topic of pharmaceutical traceability and compliance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) closely for years, in part because its implications are so fundamental to how drugs will be distributed and dispensed nationally and globally […]
Read MorePharmaceutical companies are all trying to advance the health and well-being of people through their products and services in a way that creates profitable and sustained growth for their organization. However, as these organizations grow and work to achieve these […]
Read More“Serialization” is like a new blockbuster drug for supply chains that is used in the “treatment” of counterfeiting or falsifications, while also helping with the quality and integrity of supply chains. Truly a game changer. It is already in the […]
Read MoreNot withstanding FDA’s June 30 announcement that it was delaying enforcement of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act’s next phase by one year (November 2017 to November 2018), the global pharma industry will have invested several billion dollars in hardware […]
Read MoreBesse Medical, a unit of AmerisourceBergen, is adding Physician Office Drug Inventory System (Podis), a provider of cloud-based inventory and billing reconciliation. Purchase price was not disclosed. The Podis system uses barcoding to track inventory, and provides an “integrated order-to-reimbursement” […]
Read MoreWoodfield Distribution has a growing business as a third-party logistics provider (3PL) for pharma manufacturers, operating out of an expanded distribution center in Boca Raton, FL. Now, in what it says is a first for the pharma industry, the facility […]
Read MoreIreland becomes the 43rd country in which DHL has opened what it calls its Life Sciences Centers of Excellence, essentially warehousing and logistics facilities, along with the necessary training and documentation of good distribution practices (GDPs) for handling pharmaceutical shipments. […]
Read MoreBiologics (including biosimilars), vaccines, and gene therapy scale-up and manufacturing processes will be the goals of the BioTherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences facility, with groundbreaking having occurred at a location in Chesterfield, MO. The 295,000-sq. ft. facility will include state-of-the-art analytical capabilities, […]
Read MoreWhile R&D scientists and medical researchers are blazing new trails into areas like cellular therapy and genomics, the folks managing life sciences and healthcare supply chains are dealing with their own revolutions in patient care, new forms of drug delivery […]
Read MoreThere is true excitement in the rapid pace of advances in cellular and genetic therapies—Kite Pharma, for example, one of the leaders in developing this science, has gone from concept to Phase III trials in 27 months, and an FDA […]
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