Curing the ills of pharmaceutical DCs - New track-and-trace requirements by organizations ranging from the FDA to Wal-Mart are changing how Pharmaceuticals are moving through the distribution supply chain

摘要

PHARMACEUTICAL DISTRIBUTORS FACE A variety of challenges as they handle a constantly increasing number and variety of prescription stock keeping units (SKUs). Although these wholesalers often receive large bulk shipments from drug manufacturers, picks tend to be of the broken-case, low-volume variety to fill store, pharmacy, and hospital orders.