Patients do not wait for supply chain problems to be resolved. Neither can you.
The products in transit directly affect patient health. GDP compliance is non-negotiable. Temperature excursions on biologics are patient safety events. Chain-of-custody documentation must be complete. Contract manufacturers operate with minimal visibility until a shipment is created.
Supply Chain Bottlenecks in Pharma / Life Sciences
GDP compliance
GDP compliance requiring continuous temperature monitoring and complete chain-of-custody documentation
Chain-of-custody gaps
Chain-of-custody gaps at final delivery: California mandates pharmacist name and license on sign-off
Contract manufacturing visibility
Contract manufacturing visibility gaps: zero visibility into production status until shipment is created
Consignment inventory
Consignment inventory at hospital sites with no real-time tracking of location, utilization, or expiration
Temperature-sensitive API transfers
Temperature-sensitive API transfers tracked at shipment level but not batch/lot level
Customs complexity
Customs complexity for cross-border pharmaceutical shipments with country-level requirements
25+ outcomes configured for Pharma / Life Sciences supply chains.
Tracy agents proactively identify missing scans (receive, load, delivery) across the courier network. FourKites enhanced visibility provides granular parcel-level tracking. AutoGate and delivery confirmation workflows capture pharmacist credentials and temperature verification at point of delivery.
FourKites tracks the full contract manufacturing lifecycle from PO issuance through production milestones, quality release, and finished goods shipment from CMO — using Order Twin for production order tracking, Inventory Twin for WIP and finished goods at CMO sites, and Sam for automated supplier collaboration and production status ingestion.
Cold chain integrity assured from origin to destination. Excursions caught and corrected in transit.
Advanced IoT smart labels paired with Inventory Twin provide SKU-level, real-time visibility into consigned inventory across every customer site. Location, temperature, tamper, humidity, and light data tracked at the individual kit/tray/package level. Automatic alerts for expiration, utilization thresholds, and replenishment triggers.
Advanced IoT smart labels provide per-package GPS location, temperature, humidity, light exposure, and tamper-violation data. The device data is ingested and surfaced on the FourKites shipment card at the product level, with 10-year data retention that meets TAPA and pharma audit requirements.
Every supplier document processed and linked to orders automatically. Zero manual data entry. For supplier-managed shipments, FourKites creates shipments and updates orders directly from these documents, eliminating manual shipment creation entirely.
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