
Over the last 18 months or so, the Ministry of Health in the Russian Federation has been conducting a pilot to learn what works and what doesn’t work for pharma serialization and tracing (see “Russia Begins Its Pharma Supply Chain Pilot” and “The Russia Serialization Pilot Guideline”). They were due to publish a report on their findings in February of this year, but we are still watching for that. As we’ve learned over the years, it’s not uncommon for governments to miss their deadlines, at the same time, making tough statements about the industry needing to meet theirs, followed by caving on those deadlines too (See US, China, Brazil, US, India, Pakistan…). That pattern is repeating in Russia. Continue reading New Direction For Pharma Serialization In The Russian Federation

I was on vacation last week and only arrived home Sunday evening so I didn’t have time to write an essay for Monday, but this is Tuesday! Near the end of last month there was a spike in the number of things that need to be covered in RxTrace. Two of them are important things from HDA and the Center For Supply Chain Studies. I’ve been waiting for both for months, and here they are. 
When companies are thinking about merging or acquiring (
There are a lot of discussions going on in the industry right now, over which approach and which technologies the US pharma supply chain should select to meet the 2023 requirements of the
The lack of simple, standard, low cost product master data synchronization threatens to derail the industry’s general consensus-plan to use
Today, the