Manufacturing

Partha S. Anbil is a cognitive enterprise transformation leader (partha.anbil@ibm.com) with IBM’s Healthcare and Life Sciences practice.

Articles

Novartis, BMS, and other companies are reducing complexity by thinning out product portfolios. Reducing complexity can reduce waste and improve responsiveness, but it must be done right.

Improving Pharma Supply Chain Agility: A Lesson from the Retail Industry

Jennifer Markarian is a contributing editor for 

Suppliers address complex supply chains for global biopharmaceutical manufacturing using disposable components.

Challenges for Supplying Single-Use Systems

GS1, a global supply-chain standards organization, launched a new messaging standard in collaboration with GS1 US to help meet the requirements of the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) for salable returns of serialized prescription drugs.

GS1 Launches Messaging Standard for Verification of Product Identifiers

The strategic partnership is expected to bring a new source of supply to providers, alleviating in particular the two-year shortage of metoprolol injection.

Baxter and Premier’s ProvideGx Partner on Drug Shortages

Amber Lowry is an associate editor at UBM plc.

Recent advancements in cold-chain technology offer improved transporting and storing of temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products.

Innovations Maintain the Cold Chain

Felicity Thomas is the former Associate Editorial Director of Pharmaceutical Technology, Pharmaceutical Technology Europe, BioPharm International.

A new initiative has been launched to help stimulate industry discussion on innovative tech for use across the drug supply chain.


Stimulating Discussion

TrakCel and WindMIL Therapeutics have formed a partnership to build a custom-configured cellular supply chain tracking and orchestration platform.


TrakCel, WindMIL Therapeutics Partner to Develop Supply Chain Platform

Lonza’s PyroTec PRO system combines robotic liquid-handling technology with an automation software module.

Automated Plate-Based Robotic Solution for High-Precision Endotoxin Detection

The companies will offer an IT platform that enhances the visibility and performance of the overall personalized medicine treatment process. 

TrakCel and Quick Partner on Digital Supply Chain for Cell and Gene Therapies

The plan details five goals to guide the development of Sentinel, a national electronic system for medical product safety surveillance established as part of the FDA Amendments Act of 2007, over the next five years.