Innovative serialized labelling solution to eliminate costly packaging software

Pharmaceutical medicine traceability is a regulatory requirement that mitigates the risk of medicine counterfeiting in the supply chain. Recently, serialization regulatory compliance has been adopted by most countries. Shambhu Sarkar, a well-known pharmaceutical medicine serialization and traceability expert, explained in a recently published original research article in the "Journal of Applied Science International" that pharmaceutical serialization regulatory compliance is enforced on all drug manufacturers, irrespective of their investment capacity in infrastructure. 

Investment challenges for small manufacturers 
As per Shambhu Sarkar, investment in heavy, specialized packaging and serializing equipment will cost several hundred thousand dollars. Initially, it was noticed that some small manufacturers showed their inability to invest in heavy packaging equipment due to competition and a lower margin in profits. Moreover, small and mid-scale companies also find it increasingly difficult to adopt new technology for developing packaging solutions for serialization. Additionally, the licensing and sustainability expenses of customized serialized packaging solutions place additional strain on businesses with tight budgets. Mr. Shambhu Sarkar further explained that implementing a specialized serialization packaging line would significantly increase the budget due to the huge costs of procuring equipment. Many small and midsized businesses are finding it harder and harder to embrace new technology in order to provide packaging solutions for serialization. Consequently, investment costs would have to adjust by increasing the price of essential medicine, which might impact the patients’ financial budget and treatment.

Shambhu Sarkar’s innovative serialized labelling solution to eliminate costly packaging software
Mr. Shambhu Sarkar designed a packaging solution that focused on eliminating the need for costly packaging lines. Mr. Sarkar’s innovative packaging solution easily prints serialized labels using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). 

The design of innovative packaging systems with traceability capabilities is an auspicious direction for the growth of the pharmaceutical industry. Due to the complexity of the serialization labelling process under Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and its regulatory compliance, label design, printing, and grading is very stringent process. 

The new packaging tool designed by Shambhu Sarkar can easily and securely keep records of all label data for traceability and audit. Importantly, new serialized packaging technology developed under the ERP platform has shown promising results when tested in the packaging area. 

In the first place, this tool test was conducted on a few medicine units where newly developed packaging technology successfully printed several hundred pieces of 2x2 serialized labels from a zebra printer. Similarly, the label grading and scanning results were also very high and passed all required dimensions. 

Further, Mr. Shambhu Sarkar’s solution development efforts for this innovation are exceeding success in meeting the primary goal of including packaging technology in the strategic process of regulatory compliance. Shambhu’s Solution is based on the Open-Source Code-enabled platform and Label Software, which has been extended with a custom transaction family in order to keep track of label templates and print serialized labels. 

It is recommended that small manufacturers who do not have the budget to purchase and implement costly specialized label printing devices adopt the proposed technology for all serialized medicine packaging and label printing. Under these circumstances, Mr Sarkar’s innovative packaging tool can be very useful for the small-scale medicine manufacturing industry, where investment in heavy equipment is a big concern. 

Surprisingly, this tool implementation does not require any additional equipment or cost for serialized label printing and can be adopted in existing infrastructure. In essence, this achievement stands as a testament to Mr. Shambhu Sarkar’s unparalleled proficiency in both pharmaceutical medicine serialization and traceability. 

Its scalability and applicability across the industry underscore the breadth of his expertise. By introducing a solution that resonates across a wide spectrum of pharmaceutical enterprises, Mr. Sarkar has underscored his capacity to enact transformative changes that ripple through the very core of the pharmaceutical landscape.