Track & Trace

Unisys Corporation has launched PharmaTrack, new software that combines leading security, advanced data analytics and compliance technology in a single, unified platform to provide life sciences and healthcare companies enhanced visibility and oversight of the entire global pharmaceutical supply chain and thus help combat theft and counterfeit drugs.

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Pharmaceutical serialization is a complex issue with requirements varying across geographies. Several countries already have drug serialization regulations in place, but by 2020 many of the major markets in the pharmaceutical industry will need to be fully compliant.

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Satisfying the requirements of track and trace regulations in the world’s two largest pharmaceutical markets isn’t easy. With the US serialisation mandate fast approaching, and the EU deadline coming in February 2019, businesses across the supply chain are working to determine how best to navigate through uncharted territory.

The global IT firm says that the software will provide life sciences and healthcare companies "enhanced visibility and oversight" of the entire global pharmaceutical supply chain and so help combat theft and counterfeit drugs.

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As the barriers associated with implementing serialization are coming down, the food and beverage sector is increasingly open to using the technology to secure its supply chains.

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Unisys Corporation has launched PharmaTrack, new software that combines leading security, advanced data analytics and compliance technology in a single, unified platform to provide life sciences and healthcare companies enhanced visibility and oversight of the entire global pharmaceutical supply chain and thus help combat theft and counterfeit drugs.

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Pharma and CMOs must start addressing their serialization needs ahead of 2019’s EU Falsified Medicines Directive, says Tracelink which is bringing its supply chain event NEXUS to Barcelona next month.

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The customer is now in charge of the supply chain. Equipped with mobile devices that provide constant connectivity, modern consumers have taken control of the retail chain. Shoppers now expect immediate access to the products they want, when and where they want them.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) definition, a counterfeit medicine is "a medicine, which is deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to identity and/or source. Counterfeiting can apply to both branded and generic products and counterfeit products may include products with the correct ingredients or with the wrong ingredients, without active ingredients, with insufficient ingredients or with fake packaging".