SupplyScape Introduces Next Generation Global Product Serialization And Supply Chain Optimization Solutions For The Life Sciences Value Chain

SupplyScape Corporation, the leading provider of software to secure the safety and value of the life sciences supply chain, recently unveiled its next generation of product serialization and supply chain optimization solutions. Input from nearly 100 customers, in all segments of the supply chain, drove the requirements for these new and innovative applications and services. The solutions are designed to help life science companies overcome a wide range of business operations challenges by leveraging serialized product information from globally networked supply chains to create value within the enterprise and across trading partners. These new capabilities are made possible by Nexus, a network-based data sharing and collaboration platform that takes advantage of the latest Web 2.0 technologies to facilitate comprehensive interoperability within trade networks and mobilize rich operational data to the enterprise systems and business leaders that need it.

Companies in the life sciences industries face mounting challenges fueled by financial performance, business outsourcing and supply chain operational pressures. SupplyScape Nexus forms the foundation for a highly connected and agile trading partner network built on standardized serialization, pedigree and operational data. With Nexus, companies can now drive visibility, agility, and efficiency within their distributed business operations and across their supply chains in ways not previously feasible.

"In today's environment, leaders are designing their supply chains from an outside-in perspective," noted Hussain Mooraj, research director for pharmaceutical and life sciences at AMR Research in a December 2007 article. "The goal is to create opportunity at the lowest cost and maximize value to trading partners and the end customer (patient)."

"So many organizations lack the accurate, timely and secure supply chain intelligence necessary for actionable visibility into product movement, supply chain performance and product security threats," said Mark O'Connell, president and chief executive officer of SupplyScape. "By enabling participants across the life sciences value chain to access and share precise and timely serialized product and pedigree information, we make it possible for them to engage with their trading partners and collaborate more productively."

Key capabilities include:

• Trade Partner Management and Collaboration: Accelerate time-to-value from trade partner relationships through innovative Trading Partner Directory and Portal services that speed connectivity, inter-organization collaboration, and process sharing.
• Supply Chain Monitoring and Decision Support: Improve decision-making and increase business agility with Nexus Web 2.0-based alerts, reports, and executive dashboards.
• Flexible Enterprise Integration: Future-proof enterprise IT investments with Nexus' extensive system integration capabilities for enterprise applications such as SAP® ERP, serialization systems, and EPCIS solutions.
• Serialization and Pedigree Data Repository: Leverage rich product and supply chain knowledge, formed by the integration of serialization and pedigree information with operational and transaction data, to create actionable data for use in enterprise solutions such as SupplyScape's Product Security suite.
• Event Management: Increase responsiveness to unplanned operational and supply chain situations by integrating business systems to Nexus event triggers.

Also announced today are an expanded set of consulting and professional services offerings designed to help companies develop actionable strategies and build collaborative trading partner networks to meet global serialization and supply chain optimization goals:

• Strategy consulting offerings to help companies create global serialization strategies and define new business performance and supply chain optimization opportunities that arise from the availability of serialization information.
• Professional services and operational support offerings to help companies create, configure, and manage a collaborative trade partner network of shared business processes.

O'Connell added, "With these new Nexus-enabled applications and services, SupplyScape is easing the life sciences sector's movement toward a secure, modern value chain. Businesses survive on their connections to the value chain, and we now help foster better visibility, communication and control in unprecedented ways."

About SupplyScape
SupplyScape Corporation is the leading provider of software to secure the safety and value of the global life sciences supply chain. Pharmaceutical manufacturers, medical device makers, wholesale distributors and pharmacies rely on our solutions to build collaborative trading partner networks that enable end-to-end value chain visibility and control, increase product security and patient safety, and enhance business performance. For more information, visit www.supplyscape.com.

SOURCE: SupplyScape