Blockchain Technology (BT) is recognized as a technology with multiple applications in many industries due to the nature of its utilization. In pharmaceutical industry, an effective supply chain crucial mitigate counterfeit medicine market, which currently big challenge, especially for low or middle-income countries. This research investigates possibility implementing blockchain solutions Pakis...

To be sure, all the industries try to be involved in globalization with a constant trend to find out ways to increase productivity across different functions within an organization to maintain competitive advantage world. Pharmaceutical industries are not exceptional and further are based on fragmentation. So these kind of companies need to cope with several barriers such as silo mentality that...

This book is a comprehensive guide to networks of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based Electronic Product Codes (EPCs) in supply chains, and its topics range from standardised hardware designs through known vulnerabilities, security and privacy models, and to concrete proposals for RFID authentication in various scenarios: machine readable documents, oneand two-way authentication in supp...

Production planning is widely studied, and mathematical formulations have been proposed for various problems. The capacity level usually fixed which requires a separate solution of the problem. In this paper, methodology setting up solving integrated production problems given manufacturing network. Mixed-integer linear programming are assembled from constraint objectives database based on syste...

This article aims to evaluate the use of lean manufacturing practices, according to SAE J4000, in a supply chain of the pharmaceutical industry. The data were collected in four companies: a manufacturer, a distributor and two suppliers. The results show companies are aligned in only one of the six elements of the standard.

This paper describes methodology, toolset and case studies of adaptive planning for supply chain networks based on the holistic approach, multi-agent technology and ontological modeling. The set of tools for the development of adaptive planners can be used for a wide range of applications. Case studies are included describing applications inr adaptive airport logistics, factory planning, laundr...