Pharmacy
Segment Overview and Key Considerations
Margins for pharmacies are being pressed on all sides as competition increases, required enterprise IT investments rise to support serialization and RFID mandates, product integrity risks grow due to counterfeiting and diversion, and operational complexity increases as the number and diversity of pharmaceutical products expands. Together these drive an immediate imperative for new strategies and solutions that enable pharmacies to increase operational flexibility and efficiency while improving financial performance.
Serving a diverse customer base across numerous dispensation points while ensuring a low-cost and reliable drug supply is challenging enough even without ever-changing regulatory requirements and investments in track and trace technologies. Leading pharmacies look to SupplyScape's software solutions and strategy consulting services to:
- Ensure maximum revenue through product availability, at both the distribution center and the storefront level, by improving supply visibility, security, and minimizing stock-out risk
- Drive cost reduction by enhancing inventory visibility and improving receiving operations
- Secure regulatory and trading partner compliance with ongoing pedigree and track and trace requirements
- Enhance patient and formulary trust in pharmacy-supplied product
Targeted Capabilities
SupplyScape solutions benefit your business today and for the future by providing the regulatory support, track and trace visibility and growth platform that you need. Our application solutions deliver key capabilities demanded by pharmacy chains of all sizes including:
- Enhanced operational planning by leveraging a business platform to connecting integrated serialization and pedigree information with enterprise business systems and users
- Simplified on-ramping into a collaborative supply network sharing serialization and pedigree information
- Central hosting of serialized product and pedigree information in a browser-based portal for simplified store-level operations
- Improved product tracking, increased inventory visibility and minimized out-dates
- Extensive business process support for efficient management of diverse operations such as normal receiving from distribution, drop shipment from manufacturers, intra-company transfers, and drug returns
- Minimized impact at pharmacy store level for larger pharmacy chains by enabling a regulatory compliance focus at centralized distribution centers
- Complete pedigree, standards-compliant solution covering all state and federal PDMA requirements
- Improved cash flow from more automated and efficient returns management.
Supporting Services
SupplyScape's support doesn't stop at providing a strong application foundation for your business. Our experts also work closely with you to maximize the lifetime value of your investments, through revenue growth as well as cost reduction. SupplyScape's strategy consultants can analyze your trading ecosystem and business operations, developing blueprints for streamlining your business and enhancing your procurement. Our implementation partners or your IT staff then brings these blueprints to life in defined phases that minimize impact to ongoing operations.
