Colombia: Implementing traceability at a pharmaceutical company
The automatic traceability system will help develop good logistics practices and ensure traceability of products, increasing efficiency and safety.
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Staff at Cruz Verde have joined with those at GS1 Colombia to design and implement a model for product identification, with automatic and efficient information capture and transmission.
Cruz Verde offers a range of pharmaceutical services in Colombia, including wholesale distribution of medicines and other supplies to hospitals. Dosed medication delivered by the company has a lot number and expiration date, but it is coded in a non-standard way. This means that hospital staff receiving the drugs need to manually verify each medication and it takes up to eight hours with an error rate of 1.5%.
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