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Understanding the buying patterns of your customers in an uncertain economic climate is crucial to remain competitive. Need to know what pharmaceutical and biotech key decision makers are prioritising and investing in? The results are in 52% of key decision makers are looking to meet track & trace service providers. For more key findings download the infographic now! learn more

Tags:   authentication providers | packaging and labelling | pharmaceutical packaging | Global Pharmaceutical Packaging Investment Forecast | pharmaceutical and biotech key decision makers | packaging industry | pharmaceutical packaging leaders | serialisation

Provided by Nice Insight, this quick guide will enable you to target customers by the services they will outsource in 2012. learn more

Tags:   biotech | emerging biotech | pharma | specialty pharma | emerging pharma | outsourcing | pharmaceutical outsourcing

Although outsourcing is a growing trend in higher and middle income countries, it’s an emerging trend in lower income country settings. Although there are clear theoretical benefits, the true costs and benefits of doing so are not well documented, nor is there a good understanding of the challenges of outsourcing public health supply systems and what conditions are necessary conditions for outsourcing to be successful. The review of the Western Cape Province experience is a small incremental step towards filling this information gap. learn more

Tags:   vaccine supply | South Africa | logistics system | public health supply systems | outsourcing public health supply systems | cold chain

The introduction of new vaccines, combined with a push to expand immunisation globally to reach every child, is straining vaccine supply chains to the limit. New thinking on the way vaccines are delivered is needed. Gary Humphreys reports learn more

Tags:   vaccine supply chains | vaccines | immunisation globally | WHO | supply chain | pharma supply chain

This paper documents the poor availability of various Essential Health Product (EHPs) s in Africa and explores how to improve EHP distribution via collaborations with the private sector. learn more

Tags:   Essential Health Product | EHPs | EHP distribution | EHP availability | pharma logistics | cold chain | access to essential medicines | pharmaceutical supply chain | International Vaccine Access Center | IVAC

In this document, project Optimize reviews the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Vaccine Management Business Improvement Project, which represents an end-to-end reengineering of the US public-sector vaccine supply chain—from vaccine budgeting through storage and distribution. The CDC’s overarching goal was to ensure that vaccine was flowing to the right places at the right time. learn more

Tags:   project Optimize | vaccine budgeting | vaccine storage | US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | CDC | Vaccine Management Business Improvement Project | US public-sector vaccine supply chain

Model guidance for storage and transport of time-and temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products as Annex 9 to the WHO Technical Report Series, No.961, 2011 (pages 324-372). learn more

Tags:   WHO | WHO Expert Committee on Specifications for Pharmaceutical Preparations | Model guidance for storage and transport of time-and temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products | WHO Technical Report Series | No.961 | time-sensitive pharmaceutical products | temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical products | quality assurance

Commissioned by project Optimize, a collaboration of PATH and the World Health Organization, a study of vaccine vial monitor (VVM) availability and use in developing countries in four regions was undertaken. The study had three aspects: the total proportion of vaccines with VVMs in the regions with detailed information by country, in-depth information on policies and practices, and knowledge and attitudes in a selected sample of countries. (Source: TechNet21) learn more

Tags:   TechNet21 | project Optimize | PATH | World Health Organization | vaccine vial monitor | VVM | vaccines | cold chain | developing countries | vial labels

Both Iran and Sudan utilise an alarm-based temperature recording system to monitor the performance of their national immunisation cold stores. To better the utility and application of such systems in other countries, this project Optimize report documents the benefits, challenges, and advantages of both Iran’s and Sudan’s systems. (Source: TechNet21) learn more

Tags:   TechNet21 | temperature recording system | national vaccine stores | cold chain | Iran | Sudan | alarm-based temperature recording system | national immunisation | cold stores | vaccines | Khartoum | Tehran

European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM) report on pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting. Threat from counterfeit medicines and likelihood of medicines purchased online being counterfeit, substandard or otherwise illegal is investigated. The research is followed by an in-depth analysis of over one hundred online pharmacies. learn more

Tags:   Counterfeiting Superhighway | EAASM | European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines | pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting | counterfeit medicines | online pharmacies

In this presentation, detecting and analysing potential risks throughout the biologics supply chain, understanding the impact of these risks and learning about the risk mitigating mechanism for a secure transportation chain. learn more

Tags:   Boriana Cavicchia | transportation | transfer of biologics | transportation of biologics | risk management | biologics supply chain | distribution risk | Process Mapping | Hazard Analysis and Critical Control points (HACCP) | Hazard Operability Analysis (HAZOP) | Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) | Cause and Effect Analysis | secure transportation chain