Last Friday was the five year anniversary of RxTrace and this is the 255th essay. I started RxTrace on July 4, 2009 as an outlet for ideas (see my very first essay, “Welcome to rxTrace”). The results of the last five years have been very rewarding. Rather than looking back this year, let’s look to … Continue reading Five Years of Pharma Supply Chain Analysis
Congress should have mandated randomization of drug serial numbers, but they did not, so it is up to each manufacturer to recognize the importance it would bring to the protection of their brands and of the supply chain. Let me explain. The text of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) was developed last year … Continue reading DSCSA: Congress Should Have Mandated Randomization
GS1 just updated their website with the newly updated versions of their Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) and Core Business Vocabulary (CBV) which were ratified by the GS1 Board on Monday. Both carry the new version number “1.1”. The two standards are separate but intertwined because the core business vocabulary is used within the various … Continue reading GS1 Ratifies Updated Versions of EPCIS and CBV
Last week I published an overly long essay about how the supply chain provisions of the new U.S. Federal DQSA will and won’t protect the pharma supply chain. Believe it or not, I had more to say on the subject, but because that essay was already too long, I withheld my additional thoughts until now. … Continue reading How the DQSA Will–And Won’t–Protect The Supply Chain, Part 2
One of my four brothers has a journalism degree with a photojournalism emphasis from Northern Illinois University. Randy started his career at the Kewanee Star Courier (Illinois) as a photographer back in the 1980’s, before the internet became a place where many people looked for their daily news. His next career move was to become … Continue reading This Is Not Journalism
Ranking was determined by the total number of pageviews between June 30, 2012 and June 30, 2013. Rank Title/Link Date Published Comments 1. Anatomy Of The National Drug Code January 3rd, 2012 1 2. The Significance of the Abbott, McKesson and VA Pilot November 12th, 2012 8 3. Will The California ePedigree Dates Slip Again? … Continue reading Full List Of RxTrace Essays Ranked By Year 4 Clicks
There is a new and valuable resource available for anyone who needs to make use of both GS1 RFID and GS1 barcodes–or even just one or the other–on any product or shipping container and in any supply chain. It is called “RFID Bar Code Interoperability, GS1 Guideline” and it is available as a free PDF download … Continue reading InBrief: RFID and Barcode Interoperability
There are more than one reasons why you shouldn’t expect to use GS1’s EPCIS by itself to comply with the California pedigree law. Part 1 of this series showed that the traditional distributed network of EPCIS repositories in the U.S. pharma supply chain doesn’t work. But that analysis assumed the use of the “vanilla” EPCIS … Continue reading Why GS1 EPCIS Alone Won’t Work For California Pedigree, Part 2
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