Section

Supply Chain

The handoffs from medicine manufacture to dispensing, including stock control, product identity and packaging checks.

Plain cardboard cartons on pallets in a warehouse aisle

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Follow the product through manufacturing, storage, transport and dispensing, then examine the checks at each handoff.

Medicine supply chain explained maps production, release, storage, transport and dispensing responsibilities. Packaging and medicine availability examines identity, integrity and information defects that can delay release or dispensing. Pharmaceutical serialization and aggregation levels specifies GS1 DataMatrix ECC 200 grading, bundle/case/pallet SSCC hierarchies, and line controls.