Track & Trace

Mastercard and Envisible's new blockchain-based supply chain will enable grocers and suppliers to not only track goods on the distributed ledger but for them as well.

Supply chain visibility is all about knowing where your product inventory is at any given time and the quality and safety conditions through real-time temperature monitoring. Its significance can be appreciated when visibility is removed from the equation. Imagine a food supply chain without a network of shared information. We would be blind regarding what might have happened when, and unable to make informed decisions to prevent excursions and safety risks from happening again. Food quality and safety are paramount for food brands. A single incident or scare can measurably devastate your business for years to come.

A Pfizer and Biogen-led organization, called the Clinical Supply Blockchain Working Group (CSBWG), has completed a proof of concept project for a digital inventory and event tracking record in the pharmaceutical clinical supply chain.

Today’s Serialization in pharmaceutical playing a very important role because of pharmaceutical business, counterfeit and falsified medicine cause world public health risks. These medicines also not only ineffective however actively dangerous, inflicting adverse reactions or even death. what is more, these counterfeit medicines also factory-made in multiple locations e.g., chemical synthesis in one country, the addition of fillers in another and packaging in a third creating them tough to trace and take away from the provision chain?

Item level traceability has potential to be beneficial and successful in the United States. Pharmacies receive inventory from pharmaceutical wholesalers and separate pills individually. During this sorting process, item level serialization can be checked for authentication. Our vTag® technology has the ability to apply serialization on an item level, including pharmaceuticals.

An earthquake damages your manufacturing facility, a strike at a port has delayed shipments to your store or political uncertainty has left your planning and forecasting in chaos. Today’s supply chains are complex global networks that face a growing host of risks, including natural disasters, labor unrest, transportation delays, political uncertainty and cyberattacks.

Industry 4.0 is the digital transformation of industrial markets; specifically the manufacturing industry. Industry 4.0 has evolved from an initiative to make the German manufacturing industry more competitive (‘Industrie 4.0’) to a globally adopted term referring to industrial transformation in discrete and process manufacturing.

Pharma Track and Trace Solutions Market Report presents a complete assessment of the market and contains a market forecast, market share, market size, future trend, key players, current growth factors and industry validated market data

Globalization, innovative technologies and increasing consumer demands, which are characterized by individualization and sustainability, are currently exposing the packaging industry to strong change. In this blog post you can find out which five central trends will influence the packaging industry.

Many developments are being driven by the impending arrival of fifth-generation (5G) networks, which will offer higher data processing, lower latencies and more reliable connectivity. This, in turn, will support Intelligence of Things (IoT) applications that require vast amounts of data to be processed rapidly.

Blockchain, a decentralised network that shares information in real time with participants, is being piloted by the pharmaceutical industry as a solution to tracking and tracing the drugs they manufacture and ship.

Banking and investment services industries continue to experience significant levels of interest from innovators seeking to improve decades old operations and processes, however only 7.6% of respondents to the CIO Survey suggested that blockchain is a game-changing technology.  That said, nearly 18% of banking and investment services CIOs said they have adopted or will adopt some form of blockchain technology within the next 12 months and nearly another 15% within two years.

Six trends are shaping the future of global pharmaceutical packaging, according to research and analysis from researchers at Pharmapack Europe. Their results, summarized below, are contained in “The Golden Age of Innovation Is Beginning: Drug Delivery and Packaging Report 2019.”

Healthcare is undergoing a major shift - from unified medication, to unique medicines created for individual patients. But how do we protect personal data, contracts, medicines, lab samples, and medical equipment in this new and complex environment?

The UK’s newly-implemented Track and Trace system for tobacco products will be suspended in the event of a no-deal Brexit, HMRC confirmed on Wednesday.

Sportswear brand PUMA is bringing its new New York City flagship store to life with interactive digital product experiences, giving customers visiting the store access to dynamic experiences – by simply scanning the unique QR code on each PUMA product using their smartphones.

The concept of supply chain transparency was virtually unknown 15 years ago, yet today it commands the attention of mid- and senior-level managers across a broad spectrum of companies and industries.

Starbucks is working with Microsoft to develop a blockchain-based supply chain tracking system and mobile app that will allow customers to track the supply chain journey of the beans they buy and the coffee they drink.