PS-Authentication Benefits

Enhancing patient safety and seeking business improvement, forward-looking companies are embracing SupplyScape's innovative Product Security Solution and PS-Authentication capabilities to gain the following business benefits.

Patient safety

PS-Authentication provides a "safety net" for patient safety, enabling Bio/Pharma companies to extend real-time drug product security to wholesalers and pharmacies. The drug's EPC status can be verified anywhere in the supply chain, both during normal distribution operations as well as just before dispensing the product to a customer or patient.

Product security

PS-Authentication enables supply-chain wide verification of the drug's Electronic Product Code and product state delivered through a secure 3rd party EPC repository. A Bio/Pharma company can proactively manage the drug state supply-chain wide by applying EPCs to products and providing access across their trading partner networks to PS-Authentication services. Using PS-Authentication's flexible EPC state management capability, wholesale and pharmacy trading partners can then be alerted automatically if a drug product is in an adverse state such as recalled, expired, or stolen. This collaborative process synchronization is managed through a network service that keeps access to private product data safe and secure.

"Wholesalers and distributors have authenticated 300,000 tagged bottles of Viagra by verifying each tag's unique Electronic Product Code (EPC)"RFID Journal, 11-14-06

Serialization strategy value

Companies contemplating new serialization programs strongly benefit from PS-Authentication's network synchronization approach and internal EPCIS support. Serialized product value is determined by the breadth and richness of the network that can leverage serialized identity. PS-Authentication enhances network adoption by linking together trading partners with flexible interfaces, enabling diverse serialization methods (pallet, case, and item-level), and supporting both RFID and barcode labeled products.

Adverse event support

By managing the product state assigned to each EPC, pharmaceutical companies can develop a single, efficient process for product recall or diversion management. From gaining a quick snapshot of current product distribution in helping set reaction strategy to monitoring ongoing trading partner response to event developments, PS-Authentication speeds adverse event reaction and minimizes ultimate impact to financial results.

Business collaboration

PS-Authenticationgives wholesalers and pharmacies a streamlined, real-time data collaboration capability with their trading partners to improve receiving and inventory processes and gain information to leverage procurement support.

Revenue growth

The same PS-Authentication capabilities used to enhance patient safety can increase realized revenue and improve profit margins across the supply chain by identifying potentially counterfeited and diverted drugs before they are received into inventory.