Track & Trace

According to the World Bank (5), digital technology will “play a critical role to support the planning, delivery, monitoring, and management of vaccination programs.” The authors suggest a mixture of “open source” (6) digital distribution systems and platforms (7) used for existing vaccination programmes are being used organize COVID-19 vaccine supply.
In a similar vein, Reuters (8) said COVID-19 vaccine distribution was a “bonanza” for the digital supply chain tracking industry. The newswire cited revenue gains reported by shipment tracking technology firm Cloudleaf and tag supplier Varcode as evidence.

The products and services of Securikett® are unique by their tailor made and layered security concept. Securikett® provides proof of origin by its One-Stop-Shop concept - tamper evidence against tampering or reuse, rapid and definite means of authentication, as well as traceability and identification by unique codes. Main technologies are being developed in house and many of them are patent protected.

Kezzler, the cloud-based Level 4 traceability solutions provider and Syntegon Technology, one of the largest Level 1 to Level 3 process and packaging technology providers, both leading AIPIA members, have announced the creation of a new partnership for product digitization and traceability. The partnership, which is non-exclusive, will offer customers increased convenience through the flexibility to choose complementary solutions to effectively implement their product digitization and traceability strategies with minimal operational burden, the partners claim.

Fake products can have fatal consequences for consumers. For manufacturers, counterfeits result in severe damage to their reputation and in high expenses. Growing volumes of Internet sales are one reason for the rise of fake products. Production outsourcing and longer supply chains also provide more opportunities for counterfeit products to enter the market. And still, many go undetected. To make the supply chain safer, worldwide laws regulating the serialization, aggregation and traceability of products have come – or will come – into force. While Pharma regulatory are already established in the most markets, Food is currently implemented in Russia for example. Fast delivery of machines and software in the shortest possible time as well as years of experience in Track & Trace are essential for critical products like vaccines, which in some cases have to be specially cooled during production and in the cold chain.

The rising prices of drugs is the second largest concern of the end-users after the disease itself. A short-term prescription course can charge you anywhere between $100 to $1200 per year. Long term and terminal diseases like Cancer may need medicines of up to $10,000 every month. Even the prices of old drugs have also spiked, as companies and insurers are bringing in medicines that have no competition in the market, thus spiking the prices.

The big-box retail giant said Thursday it will participate in a drug-verification pilot with IBM, KPMG and drugmaker Merck. This is the second such pilot involving Walmart to be announced in as many weeks, and it adds yet another flavor of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to the drug-tracking use case.

This identity enables us to offer brands authentication, grey market detection and consumer engagement services through the integration of an NFC tag in your products.

All pharmaceutical companies selling drugs in the US will need to be partially compliant with the FDA serialisation regulations by January 1st 2015. And by the beginning of 2017 all drugs sold in the EU must comply with the EU ‘Falsified Medicines Directive’, with the aim of helping pharmaceutical companies better identify defective drugs as well as counterfeit pharmaceuticals that pose a serious danger to public health.

If your prescription hasn't been working for you or your doctor plans to put you on a new medication, they'll often times give you a free sample of a medication to try it out without having to commit to ordering a full amount. But now, one type of a medication sample could be putting you at risk, according to a new announcement from the Food and Drug Administration. Global healthcare company Novo Nordisk is recalling a number of samples of its insulin medication taken for diabetes, a condition that affects 34.2 million people across the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Keep reading to learn what medicine samples you should not be using.

Carlsberg was struggling to grow in an environment characterized by rising costs and evolving tastes. Consumers were shifting consumption from beer to wine, spirits and craft beers—or moving away from alcoholic beverages altogether. Traditional brewers were left to compete in a market that was growing steadily smaller. And they had to spend more to do so.

Innovation in Packaging has three distinct categories – Material innovation, Design Innovation, and Application innovation. Material innovation, particularly the primary packaging materials, is a long-term process, involving compatibility & stability study, extractable & leachable study, migration & permeation study, including clinical and bio equivalence studies of the product and transport worthiness of the finished product packaging. Considering the emergency, design, and application innovation got priority for development and adoption. However, the process of material innovation got momentum and many studies are continuing with different formulations at different parts of the world.

Pharma packaging is an ever evolving yet challenging segment of the pharma industry. Business insights from the last decade will help the industry in visualising the need of the sector with high reliability and sustainability solutions with low-cost methods. Express Pharma presents the industry’s views, understanding and preparedness for the next decade

1,500 drones form a Huge QR code over the sky of Shanghai in celebration of the anniversary of a game. The QR code, when scanned, redirect players to the H5 download page of "Princess Connect: Re Dive," by Cygames. This may look like a scene out of Blade Runner.

Vaccine rollout is essential to curb the spread of the virus, but responsibly discarding syringes and needles is also important for the planet’s health.

As fashion and retail recover from the tumultuous events of 2020, a sharp focus on the fashion supply chain has emerged. And as companies retool and recalibrate, the longstanding issue of transparency is at the top of their agenda. That’s why technology firm Avery Dennison is tackling supply chain transparency—and its new connected product cloud, atma.io, is a wholly unique platform primed for a market that is looking for disruptive technologies that can enable end-to-end digital transformation.

Digital technology can help us do things differently and orchestrate the transition to a low carbon society in areas like logistics, consolidating deliveries and ensuring that fewer vans are on the roads. There are sensors to enable a circular economy and to identify, track and trace materials. There's also digital twin technology to reduce emissions, help increase energy input by as much as 20% and set up feedback loops to help predict maintenance requirements. Digital twins can also be used for sectors, such as food, to understand the impact of farming on system resilience.

Founded in 2001, tesa scribos® is a full subsidiary of tesa SE within the Beiersdorf group.tesa scribos® helps brands connect their products with the digital world by creating unique markings and digital tools that enable products to communicate with consumers, exchange data, interact with track and trace systems
tesa scribos® analyzes the needs, develops brand customized marking solution, and manages everything from idea to implementation.

The next-generation RX-enabled mobile edge technology that combines multi-scanning pharmacy management software, with built-in augmented reality (AR) making it the one-stop serialization solution for your supply chain management.

Our Serialisation service comes with a wealth of experience and competency. With track and trace, we combat counterfeiting, keeping patients and your business safe.

Having an organized and efficient serialization inventory is essential for organizations to manage them. It becomes difficult to find solutions to efficiently run the inventory in mixed and non-serialized environments. The costs to upgrade the entire systems can be exorbitant which is why most companies initially focus on the manufacturing and packaging stages when implementing serialization – the costs, time, labor, automation and processes.

It is estimated that Pharmaceutical companies across the globe face billions of dollars worth of losses annually because of stolen or counterfeit products. One of the measures the industry took to overcome this challenge was to implement pharmaceutical serialization to protect the consumers; which in turn made it more difficult to manufacture fake goods. Serializing a product is only the first step to strengthening the supply chain. Track & Trace involves putting in place measures to identify the product and see it’s journey within the entire supply chain in order to reduce counterfeit and stolen products.

The collection of first-party data and analytics is of course a major advantage for any brand, with connected packaging delivering this valuable information directly from the customer’s fingertips. Simply by scanning QR codes or barcodes on the product packaging, customers are led to a customised digital campaign. This could be a quiz exploring customer product preferences, education campaigns about health or the environment, to a game that offers discounts, vouchers or sampling. Whatever the structure, it allows for GDPR compliant data collection, and the consumer journey is simple, with no extra app installations required.

Today's consumer product packaging is being transformed by a mixture of sophisticated and exciting technology's. When you combine technology with product packaging design, you get what is called Connected Packaging. But what lies within connected packaging and how will it transform the way in which brands engage customers? In this Ultimate Guide to Connected Packaging, we’ll look at the different aspects that make up connected packaging from Augmented Reality to Analytics and everything in-between.

Over the past few years, the role of packaging in the food & beverage industry has transcended the traditional. While its primary purpose will always be one of protection and preservation of food, it now offers rich potential for personalization and a consumer experience that can both surprise and delight. Thanks to smart technology, manufacturers like Tetra Pak are taking consumer experience to the next level, leveraging packaging as a full-scale data carrier and digital tool.

The Global Startup Heat Map below highlights 5 startups & emerging companies developing connected packaging solutions. Moreover, the Heat Map reveals regions that observe a high startup activity and illustrates the geographic distribution of all 345 companies we analyzed for this specific topic.