Pharmaceutical Track & Trace Data Handling Workflow

It is important that each link in the tracking chain speaks the same language, regardless of whether it is hardware, such as labelling devices and inspection systems, or software, such as those used for production line management.

Implementing seamless product inspection for Track & Trace purposes frequently calls for much more attention from pharmaceutical companies than originally thought. Serialization and aggregation requires the entire value-added chain to be integrated. As such, marking is no longer just an issue for a single department. The packaging, packing and marketing (packaging design) sectors as well as the IT, certification and validation departments in particular are affected on a much greater scale. Issuing serial numbers dynamically from the ERP system with subsequent feedback to the central database, as is necessary for serialization, requires a particularly close connection to the company's IT infrastructure.