Vaccine traceability: Key learnings from the supply chain initiative by manufacturers from emerging countries
The use of global standards, and the placement of barcodes and data matrix codes on vaccine labels and other levels of packaging are crucial elements for the traceability of finished vaccine products. Vaccine manufacturers are committed to improving health through their products, as vaccine producti...
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| author | Sonia Pagliusi Yvette Madrid Yudha Bramanti Taufik Wilmansyah Huilin Yu Analia Acebal Komarapuram R. Krishnamurthy Venkatapathi Raju Pinnamaraju Padmakar Jadhav Rachel Park Lingjiang Yang |
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| description | The use of global standards, and the placement of barcodes and data matrix codes on vaccine labels and other levels of packaging are crucial elements for the traceability of finished vaccine products. Vaccine manufacturers are committed to improving health through their products, as vaccine production offers opportunities that can be leveraged to benefit immunization systems. In 2019 the Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN) created the Supply Chain Initiative aimed at prioritize and explore traceability opportunities; concomitantly procurement agencies announced traceability requirements for vaccine global supply. Vaccine traceability brings benefits including supply chain reliability and safety through enhanced product movement visibility, and a reduction of falsified and expired vaccines circulating in the supply chain. DCVMN has coordinated the development and implementation of global traceability standards, at both primary and secondary vaccine packaging levels, to encourage and enable sharing these experiences. Six pilot studies in four different countries showed successful implementation, and constituted part of larger vaccine traceability work within the respective organizations. The main findings from these pilot studies indicated that stepwise approaches to the adoption of traceability standards allowed vaccine manufacturers to learn by doing, initially with lower risk, and to spread their investments over time. Because the value of traceability is in its scale of adoption and the use of the data, it remains important for all stakeholders to engage in and prioritize the journey of vaccine traceability, but also to suitably manage the financial risks. The DCVMN Supply Chain Initiative has demonstrated that its members are committed to driving supply system changes that benefit immunization, while recognizing that supply chain traceability is part of a larger healthcare ecosystem and should be adopted by countries and immunization programmes as well. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8d9d26a6f5bb41b495063de3c21c57ed2023-12-17T06:41:28ZengElsevierVaccine: X2590-13622023-12-0115100366Vaccine traceability: Key learnings from the supply chain initiative by manufacturers from emerging countriesSonia Pagliusi0Yvette Madrid1Yudha Bramanti2Taufik Wilmansyah3Huilin Yu4Analia Acebal5Komarapuram R. Krishnamurthy6Venkatapathi Raju Pinnamaraju7Padmakar Jadhav8Rachel Park9Lingjiang Yang10DCVMN International, Route de Crassier 7, 1262 Eysins-Nyon, Switzerland; Corresponding author.Madrid Consulting, CH-6330 Cham, SwitzerlandPT BioFarma, Jl. Pasteur No. 28, Kota Bandung, Jawa Barat 40161, IndonesiaPT BioFarma, Jl. Pasteur No. 28, Bandung, Jawa Barat 40161, IndonesiaXiamen Innovax Biotech CO., LTD., #50 Shanbianhong East Road, Haicang District, Xiamen, Fujian, ChinaSinergium Biotech, Ruta Panamericana KM 38,7, Garin, CP1619 Buenos Aires, ArgentinaBharat Biotech, Genome Valley Shameerpet, Hyderabad 500078, Telangana, IndiaVaccine Division, Biological E Limited, Shameerpet, Hyderabad, IndiaVaccine Division, Biological E Limited, Shameerpet, Hyderabad, IndiaEuBiologics, 8F, Seongdo Building, 207, Dosan-daero, Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South KoreaChengDu Institute of Biological Products Co. Ltd, 379#, 3rd Section, Jinhua Road, Jinjiang District, Chengdu 610023, ChinaThe use of global standards, and the placement of barcodes and data matrix codes on vaccine labels and other levels of packaging are crucial elements for the traceability of finished vaccine products. Vaccine manufacturers are committed to improving health through their products, as vaccine production offers opportunities that can be leveraged to benefit immunization systems. In 2019 the Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers Network (DCVMN) created the Supply Chain Initiative aimed at prioritize and explore traceability opportunities; concomitantly procurement agencies announced traceability requirements for vaccine global supply. Vaccine traceability brings benefits including supply chain reliability and safety through enhanced product movement visibility, and a reduction of falsified and expired vaccines circulating in the supply chain. DCVMN has coordinated the development and implementation of global traceability standards, at both primary and secondary vaccine packaging levels, to encourage and enable sharing these experiences. Six pilot studies in four different countries showed successful implementation, and constituted part of larger vaccine traceability work within the respective organizations. The main findings from these pilot studies indicated that stepwise approaches to the adoption of traceability standards allowed vaccine manufacturers to learn by doing, initially with lower risk, and to spread their investments over time. Because the value of traceability is in its scale of adoption and the use of the data, it remains important for all stakeholders to engage in and prioritize the journey of vaccine traceability, but also to suitably manage the financial risks. The DCVMN Supply Chain Initiative has demonstrated that its members are committed to driving supply system changes that benefit immunization, while recognizing that supply chain traceability is part of a larger healthcare ecosystem and should be adopted by countries and immunization programmes as well.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590136223001079Supply chainTraceabilityPackaging technologyBarcodeSerialisationCounterfeit |
| spellingShingle | Sonia Pagliusi Yvette Madrid Yudha Bramanti Taufik Wilmansyah Huilin Yu Analia Acebal Komarapuram R. Krishnamurthy Venkatapathi Raju Pinnamaraju Padmakar Jadhav Rachel Park Lingjiang Yang Vaccine traceability: Key learnings from the supply chain initiative by manufacturers from emerging countries Vaccine: X Supply chain Traceability Packaging technology Barcode Serialisation Counterfeit |
| title | Vaccine traceability: Key learnings from the supply chain initiative by manufacturers from emerging countries |
| title_full | Vaccine traceability: Key learnings from the supply chain initiative by manufacturers from emerging countries |
| title_fullStr | Vaccine traceability: Key learnings from the supply chain initiative by manufacturers from emerging countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | Vaccine traceability: Key learnings from the supply chain initiative by manufacturers from emerging countries |
| title_short | Vaccine traceability: Key learnings from the supply chain initiative by manufacturers from emerging countries |
| title_sort | vaccine traceability key learnings from the supply chain initiative by manufacturers from emerging countries |
| topic | Supply chain Traceability Packaging technology Barcode Serialisation Counterfeit |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590136223001079 |
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