Drug supply-chain security (serialisation, DSCSA-style trace)

Elements

The pieces this function usually contains in a large organisation:

• Serial number scan at receipt and sale
• Verification requests
• Transaction history exchange

Catalog items that already cover part of it

• Serial number tracking INV-0035
• Receiving by scan INV-0083

What is not described

regulatory serialisation exchange.

Classification

Status

Present partially

Fit

Specialist: integrate or leave out (a specialist system usually owns this)

Suggested module

New module (suggested): Supply-chain serialisation

Suggested attributes

Pro; priority Optional; always offline. Starting points only.

Cluster

Pharmacy and health-care counters

Public excerpts

domain analysis

Archetypes and companies

Retail pharmacy and drug stores; Healthcare and pharmaceutical distribution; Consumer-goods makers and bottlers.

Example companies in these archetypes: CVS Health, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Rite Aid, Kroger pharmacies, McKesson, Cardinal Health, Cencora (AmerisourceBergen), Owens & Minor, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola bottlers, Kraft Heinz. These come from general knowledge unless a source code is shown on the archetype page; it is not a statement that each company runs every element, and it implies no relationship.

Closest industry pages

• Pharmacies and drug stores
• Health care wholesale and distribution
• Medical products, supplies and devices
• Pharmaceuticals and biotech
• Household and personal products
• Beverages, brewing and bottling
• Food production and processing

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Status is a hand review against catalog names and descriptions and can be wrong. See the method.