DUBLIN, September 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Sharp to
Present Alongside
Serialisation Partners at CPhI
Conference in Barcelona, October
2016
Sharp Packaging Services, a division of UDG Healthcare and
global leader in contract packaging and clinical services, today
announced they will be addressing delegates at CPhI WorldWide,
alongside technology partners and leaders in serialisation -
TraceLink, Systech, Covectra and Domino. The alliance will offer
Sharp's clients a proven and rapid implementation path to
serialisation readiness in view of the upcoming directives by the
U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) in November 2017 and the EU Falsified Medicines
Directive (EU FMD) in February
2019.
Rick Seibert, SVP of
Innovation & Technology, commented on the partnerships: "We
are very pleased to be collaborating with TraceLink, Systech,
Covectra and Domino, each of whom are leaders in their field. Sharp
has implemented a robust and tested technical
architecture in line with all current and evolving regulatory
requirements to support our customers for serialisation globally.
These collaborations will provide a skillset and deeper knowledge
base to our clients in preparation for the upcoming serialisation
directives. By leveraging our network of technology partners, we
are ensuring our customer's path to serialisation is as seamless
and efficient as possible."
Sharp is partnering with TraceLink to help its 100+
pharmaceutical manufacturing customers prepare for the next phase
of rapidly approaching regulation requirements. As the
serialisation solution provider to Sharp, TraceLink's productised
functionality will assist Sharp in meeting the variable set of
customer requirements for serialisation transactions. Additionally,
TraceLink's Life Sciences Cloud multi-tenant network architecture
will help eliminate point-to-point integration complexities,
provide seamless compliance for global regulations and reduce
business risk for Sharp's extensive pharmaceutical customer
base.
The partnership with Systech will implement the company's
best-of-breed UniSeries™ Serialisation suite to deliver seamless
multi regional, multi aggregation serialisation provisioning to its
customers, reducing the risk of failure to meet the regulatory
demands and allowing full flexibility of service.
Covectra partners with Sharp to supply a complete serialisation
solution for the life science market, through its AuthentiTrack
solution, which offers a modular yet comprehensive approach to
serialise down to the unit of use. Together Covectra and Sharp have
implemented complete product roll outs with serialisation to dose
levels.
Domino has extensive experience in developing and manufacturing
legislative compliant coding solutions for the pharmaceutical and
healthcare sectors and Sharp have worked successfully with Domino
printing technology over the last eight years to serialise over 2
billion pharmaceutical packages.
Sharp Packaging Services and its panel of serialisation
technology partners will be presenting at CPhI
Worldwide, the annual pharmaceutical congress held in
Barcelona from 4 - 6 October 2016. Addressing delegates on the theme
of "Serialisation: Optimizing Your Supply Chain Means Optimizing
Your Partners". The presentation will explore the critical path to
supply chain readiness, risk-assessment, benchmarking and
serialisation risk mitigation options. The briefing will take place
in the Pharma Insight Briefing room on Tuesday, 4 October 2016 at 11:30am
CEST.
The Sharp stand at CPhI Barcelona can be found at 3L56 in the
ICSE Hall.
ABOUT SHARP PACKAGING SERVICES
Sharp Packaging Services, a division of UDG Healthcare plc, is a
global leader in contract packaging and clinical services.
Operating from state-of-the-art facilities across the US and
Europe, Sharp has built an
international reputation for delivering cost-effective blister
packaging, bottling, pouches and stick packs, compliance packaging,
formulation and manufacturing services, label design and printing.
Sharp is also a world leader in 'Track and Trace' serialisation
services, which will require all prescription drugs to have a
unique serial code for authentication and traceability.
For more information on Sharp and our solutions, visit
www.sharpservices.com or follow us on LinkedIn, and Twitter. For
more information on UDG Healthcare plc, visit
www.udghealthcare.com.
For more information please go to:
www.sharpservices.com/getready
About TraceLink
TraceLink is the World's Largest Track and Trace Network for
connecting the Life Sciences supply chain and eliminating
counterfeit prescription drugs from the global marketplace. Leading
businesses, including 16 of the top-20 global pharmaceutical
companies, trust the TraceLink Life Sciences Cloud to deliver
complete global connectivity, visibility and traceability of
pharmaceuticals from ingredient to patient. A single point and
click connection to the Life Sciences Cloud creates a supply chain
control tower that delivers the information, insight and
collaboration needed to improve performance and reduce risk across
global supply, manufacturing and distribution operations.
For more information on TraceLink and our solutions, visit
www.tracelink.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and
Facebook.
About Systech
Systech is the global technology leader in product safety,
and consumer and brand protection. Systech pioneered
serialization and is defining the future of authentication.
Trusted by 19 of the top 20 pharmaceutical
companies, Systech unifies and optimizes enterprise
serialization, track and trace, and authentication technologies to
ensure regulatory compliance, mitigate risk, and drive efficiency
and profitability.
For 30 years, Systech's innovation has led best
practices for key brands across the pharmaceutical, life science,
food and beverage, and consumer packaged goods industries.
Visit: www.systechone.com
About Covectra
Headquartered in Westborough,
Massachusetts, COVECTRA offers multi-layered brand integrity
and
protection solutions, including its serialization-based
AuthentiTrack technology, which includes serial
number generation, event repository and event repository
management; packaging line serialization and front-end software
applications such as ControlTrack to utilize serial numbers
for a variety of business benefits, including counterfeit
detection, adherence, and returns verification. Covectra continues
to innovate in their space, developing a series of brand protection
products for absolute counterfeit detection. Visit:
www.covectra.com
About Domino
Founded in 1978, Domino has established a global
reputation for the continual development and manufacture of its
total coding and printing technologies that meet the needs of
manufacturers and sets new industry standards in quality and
reliability.
Through a global network of 25 subsidiary offices and in excess
of 200 distributors, the Domino Group operates in over 120
countries employing over 2,600 people worldwide with manufacturing
facilities situated in UK, China,
Germany, India, Sweden
and USA.
Visit: www.domino-printing.com
For further information:
Sharp Packaging Services
Alison Dillon
Tel: + 353 1 468 9004
Email: alison.dillon@sharpserviceseu.com
Twitter: @Sharp_Packaging
Hume Brophy
Supriya Mathur, Hollie Vile, Alex
Protsenko
Tel: + 44 203 440 5654
Email: udg@humebrophy.com
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