Program

Evaluating how next generation packaging
technologies and multimedia strategies will
revolutionise packaging and brand awareness

• Defining Media Enhanced Packaging and understanding how it increases brand awareness for your products
• Creating a new platform for your package and
  understanding how it can protect your brand
• Identifying the unique covert watermark feature on your packaging
• Evaluating the benefits of Media Enhanced Packaging to your brand
• Assessing benefits of Media Enhanced Packaging to the consumer

Keynote Presentation:
Beyond Compliance: A business perspective on serialization to safeguard your supply chain

• Assessing the technology investment required and optimizing spend on technology upgrade
• Preparing your business for a successful implementation
• Ensuring the supply chain is ready for serialization

Preparing for serialization and visibility within the US pharmaceutical supply chain

• Gain insights on the benefits of a fully implemented supply chain using GS1 Visibility Standards
• Utilize simulated supply chain processes to:
  
test exception processes to minimize implementation surprises decrease the need for trading partner pilots generate GS1 standardized data to test your systems test new concepts and data to discover additional benefits
• Reducing implementation costs – helps to resolve majority of issues prior to implementation with trading partners
• Provides confidence that an organization’s implementation is “trading partner ready”
• Provides confidence that a company’s trading partners are ready
• Take the lead in helping to develop a U.S. Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Reference Model to support industry-wide implementation

Defining sustainability and how you can measure it effectively to guarantee a winning strategy you can adopt when addressing the issue

• Determining if renewable sources such as paper are the only materials deemed sustainable
• Understanding how plastics and other materials can be made as environmentally friendly as renewable sources if treated correctly
• Evaluating the impact of electronic labeling on your sustainability stance
• Assessing feasibility of switching from pvc to other polymers
• How can pack standardization reduce the environmental footprint of packaging

Securing quality, accuracy and efficiency throughout your printed packaging workflow

• Securing quality, accuracy and efficiency
• Reviewing current challenges in the packaging process
• Evaluating how to leverage automated inspection technology to ensure complete content integrity
• Discussion of current methods used for artwork
  collaboration, storage and management
• Discover an innovative approach to address Braille dot measurement needs for packaging

Examining Electronic Labeling and Industry/Consumer Impact

• History and current position of electronic labeling initiatives
• Reducing costs throughout with paperless package inserts – SKU, inventory, and life cycle management
• Update labeling in-market and possibly avoid recalls
• Reduce time to market requirements and eliminate distribution lag time
• Enhance ability to ensure labeling in market is always up-to-date
• Current opposition to paperless labeling
• Impact of paperless labeling and special considerations

The Regulatory Environment for Extractables and Leachables – implications for packaging technology

• Understanding the current regulatory environment for extractables and leachables (US and EU)
• Best practices for assessing extractables and leachables – case studies
• Packaging and container closure system component selection
• Current industry initiatives and their implications for the future

Web Based Serialisation Ready Labelling to Combat
Counterfeiting within Pharmaceutical Supplies

• Exploring the key issues in keeping your products safe
• Identifying the differences between ePedigree and Serialisation
• Understand the creation of unique serialisation codes for individual products during the production process
• Managing secure high speed printing and verification

Evaluating the best options in advertising and promotional labelling

• Evaluating cost effective promotional options
• Developing a successful strategy to maximise ROI
• Assessing popular options and evaluating their effectiveness
• Analyzing new strategies – the pros and cons

Strategies to meet your
organizations sustainability goals – uncovering
benchmarking opportunities

• Assessing the three top materials to endorse in your packaging strategy that will encourage sustainability efforts
• Evaluating the best labeling strategy that will guarantee sustainability improvements
• Identifying the most successful examples of sustainable sources used in Pharma
• Overcoming challenges in current technology