More and more goods and materials are being accompanied by small, inconspicuous chips. They are attached to containers filled with goods. Via radio they provide information about material flows and wait times, about goods, their origin and destination. This technology that significantly improves sales, supply chain management and profitability is called Radio Frequency Identification or RFID for short.
Complete control of pharmaceuticals through serialization for e-pedigree
Synchronizing business
Secure logistics concepts based on RFID systems
What we offer
Complete control of pharmaceuticals through serialization for e-pedigree
The pharmaceutical industry is plagued with pricing pressures due to changes in healthcare systems and mounting development costs. Through globalization, the need for more product safety and brand protection is increasing and need for defense against counterfeiting arises too. Legal requirements for production and distribution of pharmaceutical products have tightened. Also, development cycles are growing shorter and the lifestyle products are being included into product portfolios. This leads to an increasing number of product developments.
Siemens as one of the world's largest tracking and tracing product suppliers offers pharmaceutical enterprises a unique answer to the current trends: E-pedigree. This makes pharmaceutical products visible and traceable on their way along the value chain through volume serialization, ensuring continuing safety - especially against counterfeiting.
Synchronizing business
With the aid of RFID, the entire life cycle of a product can be tracked from its creation to its sale, service and even disposal. The transponders can be attached directly to the goods or their shipping containers and can do quite a lot. For example, if these are attached to tickets or credentials, entry controls at shareholder meetings, trade shows or conventions can be handled much more quickly and securely.
Secure logistics concepts based on RFID systems
Today’s value chains and supply management solutions cannot operate without identification systems for goods on the basis of barcodes or RFID chips. Only if each item is precisely identified can the flow of materials be safely controlled. Such identification systems are used in logistics concepts for different value chains and industry segments, for example on containers with textiles, on textiles themselves, on consumer goods packages, etc. Information about cycle and wait times, the goods, their origin and destination can be checked with optical (in case of barcodes) or radio scanners (in case of RFID chips) at any time. Transfers between carriers can be safely logged and become insurable.
What we offer
Siemens is the world’s only supplier to provide the complete RFID value chain from scanners, process consulting and implementation services to operating solutions (outsourcing). Siemens is also active in basic RFID research. The company is currently developing printable plastic-based RFID chips, called flexible polymer semiconductors. As an IT service provider, Siemens Information Systems Limited (SISL) provides support in all stages of RFID deployment, from a single source with certified specialists all over the world.
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