How Digital Technologies Improving Business Enterprise Applications

Medical devices and pharmaceutical drugs undergo packaging procedures to ensure their stability and integrity remain intact throughout post-production shipping and storage, prior to their clinical utilization. Throughout delivery and storage, the packaging may interact either directly or indirectly with the drug product or medical device, potentially leading to chemical reactions between the two. The role of packaging is paramount in ensuring success, safeguarding the product, and facilitating its sale. Similar to other items found in supermarkets, prescription pharmaceuticals necessitate packaging that addresses various needs, including security, promptness, safety, product identity, quality assurance, patient well-being, and product excellence. Packaging represents both a scientific and artistic endeavour, involving the consideration of numerous factors, beginning with the fundamental design and technology utilized to package the product securely, while also ensuring its protection, presentation, and compliance with manufacturing standards during transportation, storage, and consumption. To uphold the physiochemical, biological, and chemical stability of drugs, packaging professionals design containers capable of withstanding the pressures encountered during supply and shipping processes. Enhancements in the field of prescription drug development have long emphasized the importance of packaging expertise. This serialization process is crucial for bolstering drug security within the supply chain while maintaining drug quality, thereby minimizing the risk of counterfeit drugs infiltrating the distribution network.

Improving the Integrity of Pharmaceutical Serialization with Enterprise Technologies

Hariprasad Mandava

2024

Utilizing Blockchain Technology in the Pharmaceutical Enterprise Business

Venkata Pavan Kumar Juturi

2024

Blockchain technology is propelling the digital evolution across multiple sectors, with the pharmaceutical industry emerging as a beneficiary of this transformative innovation. This sector faces obstacles such as opacity, product tracking complexities, trust deficits, and challenges in managing expired shipments. To tackle these issues, blockchain technology has been leveraged as a remedy. Counterfeit drug prevention stands out as a predominant focus, reflecting the pharmaceutical industry's key priority. Blockchain technology, an emerging innovation, is gaining traction across various sectors, including healthcare. Within healthcare, Blockchain networks are being deployed to securely manage and exchange patient data among hospitals, diagnostic labs, pharmacies, and healthcare professionals. These Blockchain applications play a vital role in identifying and mitigating critical errors, potentially hazardous ones included, within healthcare practices. Consequently, this technology holds potential for enhancing the efficiency, security, and transparency of medical data sharing within the healthcare system. Additionally, it furnishes valuable tools for medical institutions to glean insights and enhance the analysis of medical records. It visually illustrates the wide-ranging capabilities, facilitators, and cohesive workflow of Blockchain technology in bolstering global healthcare. Furthermore, the paper provides an in-depth examination of fourteen notable applications of Blockchain technology in healthcare, emphasizing its crucial role in tackling challenges such as fraudulent practices within clinical trials. Blockchain's potential in healthcare lies in improving data efficiency, assuaging concerns about data manipulation, and establishing a robust data storage framework with the highest level of security. It provides functionalities including adaptability, connectivity, accountability, and verification for accessing data. Safeguarding the privacy and integrity of medical records is paramount, and Blockchain enables decentralized data security in healthcare, thus reducing certain risks.

Transforming Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management with Innovative SAP Technologies

Hariprasad Mandava

2024

The pharmaceutical industry faces significant challenges related to supply chain management, including stringent regulatory requirements, the need for precise inventory management, and the constant pressure to reduce costs. Innovative SAP (Systems, Applications, and Products) technologies have emerged as powerful tools to optimize the pharmaceutical supply chain, offering solutions for enhanced visibility, data-driven decision-making, and compliance management. This manuscript explores the role of innovative SAP technologies in pharmaceutical supply chain management, focusing on key solutions such as SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP), SAP S/4HANA, SAP Advanced Track and Trace, and SAP Digital Supply Chain. The paper also highlights how these technologies can address industry challenges, improve operational efficiency, and ensure end-to-end traceability and security.