Lean FMD – All Problems Solved

The standard application of Lean FMD is the verification and deactivation of medicinal products. With the medAspis system, all locations can be served where even a single 2D matrix code needs to be scanned.

Lean FMD already pays off when only small quantities are scanned – e.g. in pharmacies and hospitals. But it’s where huge quantities of packages are involved that things really get interesting. With Lean FMD you can process up to 13,000 packs per hour.

Plus, you are extremely flexible when it comes to scanning. Because the speed scanner is mobile and works without cables. This means that you can, for example, also scan in cold storage rooms or other difficult-to-access facilities.

As a rule, medicinal products are dispensed to patients by the manufacturer via wholesalers and a public pharmacy or a hospital pharmacy – sometimes with the aid of a pharmaceutical logistics provider.

However, there are cases in which medicinal products are not dispensed by pharmacies but are supplied directly by the manufacturer, the logistics provider or wholesalers. These cases are regulated in the Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/161 in §23.

§23 includes e.g. veterinarians, dentists, ambulance and emergency doctors, armed forces and police. It also comprises research and university, prisons, schools, hospices or nursing homes.

Wherever large quantities of medicinal products are produced and processed, larger quantities must be destroyed from time to time. The cause can be production or storage errors – just as well as a new pack design or new regulatory requirements.

These activities usually take place sporadically, whenever a larger quantity has accumulated.

Some customers store the goods to be destroyed and would like to destroy them in one go. In these cases, we temporarily provide speed scanners in order to process the stock quickly.

Returns are a critical issue. Often, medicines returned as returns cannot be used any further. That is why returns are checked in particular detail. This makes it possible to avoid receiving drugs that do not originate from the company’s own supply.

With the Falsification Directive, this check has become easier. With medAspis, you ensure which serial numbers were sent to which customers and can check the returns accordingly.

In many production and trade steps, single-variety processing is mandatory. For parallel trade in particular, it is a priority that packs with wrong batch numbers or even wrong product codes do not accidentally find their way into otherwise homogeneous deliveries.

The medAspis Batch Control module prevents unwanted capture of incorrect packs.

Once Batch Control is activated, the user will be alerted as soon as a wrong batch is captured. Incorrect batches are not taken over into the current production.

With Lean FMD from medAspis, data can be captured, stored and transmitted to third party systems very quickly. The data do not necessarily have to be checked at an NMVS.
 

• Case 1: Capture of new serial numbers for upload to the EMVS. Parallel importers generate new serial numbers for the goods they bring to market in their country. These serial numbers must be read in and checked during the production process. Only in the next step can this data be uploaded to the EU hub. This task is taken over by medAspis. Extremely fast reading of large amounts of data is our speciality. Additional security functions such as batch control to ensure correct codes make our customers’ work easier.

• Case 2: Fast data capture in goods receipt. Even the most powerful OBP software sometimes has the weakness of slowly reading serial numbers from existing data. medAspis is happy to help out and transfer the serial numbers at top speed to our partners’ systems for further processing.