in-PharmaTechnologist.com presents the latest new facilities to spring up all over the world, including a plasma-based therapy expansion for Baxter, a North African foray for Julphar, and a supply chain step-up for Vetter.
Planning supply chains early is an important part of maintaining margins but is often overlooked by Pharmas too focused on developing the next product in an era of patent expiry says industry consultant.
Amarin plans to add a fourth API maker to its supply chain as it prepares for a potential launch of its triglyceride lowering therapy, AMR101, in the US in 2012.
State-border delays, tolls and paperwork are increasing logistics costs in India and making transit less efficient than the EU and China, a report found.
Supply chain strategy implementations are more likely to succeed when they have the active support of the board and senior executives, according to research.
United Parcel Service (UPS) will open four global healthcare distribution centres to accommodate its fast growing healthcare business and a rising global customer base.
Biopharm are increasingly assessing the threat counterfeiting and diversion pose to emerging biotechs when planning an acquisition, according to a white paper.
Rising use of biologics and a tax initiative will drive the streamlining of Indian supply chains, helping companies to deliver drugs at affordable prices, according to PwC.
It is “legislative madness” to allow reimportation in the US, according to the chair of EAASM who spoke at AAPS about Europe’s “porous supply chain” and how it could affect the standard of medicines in the States.
Regulatory enforcement efforts to tackle counterfeit and substandard APIs are in disarray, according to Guy Villax, CEO of Hovione, who spoke at AAPS about the scale of the problem.
More than 50 per cent of executives believe their company fails to respond quickly enough to pandemics because of lapses in the supply chain, according to an IBM survey.
Researchers have presented a low cost track and trace and authentication system, which they believe could be implemented immediately, to combat counterfeiting in the developing world.
Large pharma companies will increase the level of supply chain activities they outsource in the next few years but smaller businesses are predicted to keep them in-house, according to a report.
The International Pharmaceutical Excipient Council (IPEC) has unveiled plans to set up a worldwide Federation later this year to address the increasingly global excipient supply chain.
The proposed FDA funding for 2009 has given a boost to the agency, with $300m more being offered than the agency requested to ensure the safety of products.
The FDA is calling for all drugs to be labelled using a standardised numerical identifier (SNI) similar to the one suggested in the delayed California e-Pedigree guidelines in a bid to tighten up supply chain security.
In the latest part of its “beyond our borders” scheme, the US FDA is asking drugmakers to volunteer supply chain information for drugs and APIs sourced outside the USA.
The healthcare logistics industry is currently experiencing a shift
toward globalisation, supply chain simplification and delivery
specialisation, says an industry expert.
IBM has launched a new ePedigree system to attack the problem of
drug counterfeiters and to help companies adhere to the emerging
track and trace regulations.
A magic bullet for the pharmaceutical supply chain has entered the
stage as radio frequency identification (RFID) technology attempts
to fix up its teething problems.
Batches of two fake blockbuster drugs are being recalled after
counterfeits made their way into the UK supply chain via parallel
distribution, adding fuel to the debate on the security of the
practice in the EU.
A UK-based technology company is part of a trio leading the way in
innovative supply chain solutions by combining real-time
temperature monitoring with a radio frequency identification (RFID)
tag for the pharmaceutical industry.
This year is shaping up to be another good year for third party
logistics (3PL) services firms focused on the pharmaceutical
industry, according to Sentry.
Shipping giant DHL has bagged a lucrative contract with pharma
giant Wyeth and become the first logistics provider to be given
complete responsibility for a company's worldwide clinical trial
materials distribution.
A new radio frequency identification (RFID) chip has been developed
by Pliant and IBM that can not only track drug products through the
supply chain but also identify when a product has been tampered
with.
The pharma industry's leading radio frequency identification (RFID)
vendors recently gathered to share expertise and evaluate the
potential of their RFID technologies in a living laboratory, in
their quest to produce a market...
Pfizer has issued another recall for packs of its blockbuster
cholesterol drug Lipitor after UK regulators found evidence of more
counterfeit product in the legitimate supply chain from a batch
whose withdrawal was supposed to have...
French-owned software firms Axway and Cyclone Commerce have joined
forces with US drug distribution firm McKesson to develop new and
cost-effective IT to support the pharma industry in its venture to
introduce item-level tracking...
The worldwide market for supply chain management (SCM) software is
tipped to grow 8.6 per cent a year to reach over $8.3m (€6.8m) in
2010, driven by the need to streamline supply chain processes and
improve productivity.
The traditional adversarial relationship of wholesalers with
manufacturers must change to true partnership if both are to
achieve better profits and secure the integrity of the drug supply
chain, delegates of the annual general meeting...
