We are living in a world of global markets where there are few - if any - borders between sectors, countries and continents.The Healthcare supply chain becoming much more complex with its increase in the variety of suppliers,products and buyers, and rise of large-scale productions in emerging economies like brazil russia india and china, making it increasingly difficult to trace a product form the point-of-production to the point-of-use,or from pill to patient
Although traceability has become a necessity, Global supply chains need more complex business and information systems to achieve it. They need standards for identifying, capturing and sharing information,and this is where GS1 Standards can help.
In Gs1 terms,Traceability is the ability to track forward the movement through specified stage of the extend supply chain and trace backward the history,application or location of that which us under consideration