{"id":3300,"date":"2020-12-22T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T17:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2021-03-26T13:38:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T18:38:46","slug":"industry-focus-pharmaceuticals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/22\/industry-focus-pharmaceuticals\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Focus: Pharmaceuticals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The pharmaceutical industry is constantly going through changes, from new techniques for manufacturing medicine to streamlining the distribution of medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/57_pharma_400x267p.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/57_pharma_400x267p.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.mhisolutionsmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/57_pharma_400x267p-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By Sandy Smith<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For many, the pain points for pharmaceutical companies are familiar: finding good help, meeting increasing demand for medications and filling orders quickly and accurately\u2014if at all possible, delivering the next day.<br>That\u2019s what Monty McVaugh, manager of product management at MHI member OPEX Warehouse Automation, encounters when he talks to customers in the pharmaceutical sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But other challenges are somewhat unique to the industry, including the ability to trace and track throughout the supply chain, McVaugh said.<br>\u201cThe pharmaceutical industry is constantly going through revolutionary changes, including new techniques of how to manufacture medicine, and automating and streamlining the distribution of medicine to the end patient.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is an industry that has been under increasing regulatory pressure\u2014and challenged in responding to COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Supply chain visibility<\/strong><br>In 2013, the Food and Drug Administration began implementing the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), intended to build a system to identify and trace prescription drugs at every phase in manufacture and distribution. While some aspects are already in place\u2014such as standards for licensing third-party logistics providers\u2014others will not be fully enabled until 2024. The coming changes focus primarily on traceability at the product package level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McVaugh said this has been a \u201cdriving force in digitalizing the information on medicine packaging. One aspect of DSCSA is every package\u2014which is the smallest individual unit available for sale by a manufacturer, distributor or repacking plant\u2014must have a unique product identifier on it.\u201d<br>The identifier is most often a Datamatrix barcode, readable by both humans and machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In November 2020, dispensers were no longer able to accept products that did not have unique serial numbers, wrote Brajinder Singh, a partner with Clarkston Consulting, on his company\u2019s blog. 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