SupplyScape to Deliver Valuable Insights at Leading Pharmaceutical and Anti-Counterfeiting Conferences in September

Director of Industry Standards Dirk Rodgers will Discuss ePedigree and Serialization Standards and Best Practices at Authentications Connections Forum and RFID World:Boston

Woburn, MA, September 12, 2007 - SupplyScape Corporation, the leading provider of software to maximize product integrity and create business value for pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device companies and their trading partners, today announced that Dirk Rodgers, director of industry standards, will be a featured speaker at the following key industry events this month:

Authentications Connection Forum
September 18 - 20, 2007
Minneapolis, MN
Session Title: "How Authentication Works in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain"
September 18 at 9:45 a.m.
Rodgers will offer strategies and real world experiences with the latest anti-counterfeiting approaches - authentication, serialization, RFID, and electronic pedigrees. As companies prepare their California ePedigree and serialization compliance programs, this session will address the strategies available to serialize prescription drugs and enable trading partners to authenticate electronic product codes (EPC), as well as discuss the benefits of authenticating drugs electronically. Rodgers will also present a case study on the largest drug authentication in production today - Pfizer's authentication of Viagra(R).
RFID World: Boston
September 18 - 20, 2007
Boston, MA
Session Title: "An In-Depth Look at the EPCglobal(TM) Pedigree Standard"
September 19 at 2:30 p.m.
In this presentation, Rodgers will provide an overview of pedigree requirements. The EPCglobal Drug Pedigree Messaging Standard will be reviewed, along with the processes used to define and ratify the standard. Rodgers will discuss the enabling technologies for pharmaceutical product and transaction security. The presentation will conclude with the strategic benefits that can be realized from pedigree supply chain master data.

About Dirk Rodgers

Rodgers is responsible for leading SupplyScape's involvement in industry standards initiatives, and has spent more than 20 years as a technology and operations strategist in pharmaceutical supply chain collaboration and systems integration. Prior to SupplyScape, he was a senior systems architect for supply chain solutions at Cardinal Health, where he was responsible for developing Cardinal's ePedigree strategy

Over the past five years, Mr. Rodgers has spearheaded numerous EPCglobal standard work groups, made up of industry stakeholders and solution providers. He is co-chairman of the EPCglobal Software Action Group (SAG) Drug Pedigree Messaging Working Group. He also served as co-chair of the Drug Pedigree Messaging Joint Requirements Group (JRG) and co-chairman of Healthcare and Life Sciences (HLS) Track & Trace Working Group, and was an active member in the HLS Information, Process, and Serialization work groups.

About SupplyScape

SupplyScape Corporation is a leading provider of software and services that improve patient safety, increase value chain efficiency and maximize revenue across the life sciences value chain. By creating On-Demand Value Networks, a real-time information network infrastructure for end-to-end value chain visibility and control, SupplyScape transforms the life sciences information network through its highly scalable product and transaction security platform. Pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical device makers, wholesale distributors and pharmacies rely on SupplyScape On-Demand Value Networks to enhance regulatory compliance, product integrity, operational improvement and financial performance within their value chains. For more information, visit www.supplyscape.com.