3rd Annual Pharmaceutical/Medical Packaging Leadership Summit

• Learn as the FDA reviews important requirements for Drug packaging and labeling
• Discover best practices in Supply Chain regulations
• Attain a step by step guide to successful establishment registration for new 3PL companies
• Discuss ASTM International D4169 and why the system changed

• Commitment to the Healthcare Industry
• Global Market Forces
• Cold Chain Logistics at a Glance
• Innovative Technologies

Richard Smith, Managing Director- Life Sciences and Specialty Services, FedEx Express

• Discuss how improvements in product, supply, and material management coordination can be achieved by use of bar codes. 
• Discover ways of using barcodes for Unit-of-use items for inventory control/tracking
• Learn techniques for using barcodes for tracking of reusable/refurbished equipment and supplies, product recalls, and warnings throughout the entire chain
• Implement test labels to ensure labeling accuracy
• Identify best Practices for using Bar codes on high-usage drugs so systems can easily and quickly address the most prominent threats to patient safety

• Evaluating the potential viability of reusable packaging and sterilization measures to ensure integrity
• Leveraging reusability of secondary packaging with suppliers as a means of reducing waste and costs in the production process
• Case study: cost savings through process streamlining, source reduction and use of sustainable materials
  
• The challenges of trying to 'go green'
• Strategies to lowering Environmental Impact
• An overview of what your sustainability strategy road map should include

• Hear about the University of Michigan's latest test series of studies related to label accuracy
• Understand what draws the human eye on a package and how to optimize these targets to increase patient safety and medical accuracy in drug delivery

• Keeping pharmaceuticals in cargo areas of distribution or shipping centers at constant temperature
• Making decisions for contingency plans based on scientific data
• IATA label requirements and implementation
• Working with the FDA to ensure measurements are followed
• Working with walk-in temperature and humidity chambers, cascade low temperature freezers for critical long term storage
• Staying on top of container threshold requirements

• Linking Maintenance to achieving Operational Excellence
• Reducing cycle time and conversion costs
• Improve visibility to packaging at every point in the supply chain
• Converting Maintenance from a Cost Center to a Competitive Advantage
• minimize loss and optimize supply chain efficiency
• Six Sigma Process for developing an Asset Management Master Plan

John Rocco, Executive Vice President, The Mundy Companies
Michael Greenholtz, Vice President Reliability Solutions, Genesis Solutions
Mike Mills, Senior Manager, Mundy Companies

• Choose 2 half hour long workshops to attend, and join other industry leaders as they host in-depth discussions on a variety of topics
• After 30 minutes, attendees will be given the opportunity to switch rooms and hear from a different industry leader on a while new topic
• Remember to sign up for your workshop early to ensure your seat!!! Each workshop will be hosted in a separate room

• Explore technical optimizations in packaging that mitigate waste, while advancing sustainable packaging and the supply chains served
• Take an in-depth look at the adjustments required in order to fulfill greater sustainable product goals
• Identify relevant end-of-life systems, including recycling and waste-to-energy technologies, that optimize the overall sustainable supply chain

Minal Mistry, Senior Manager, Sustainable Packaging Coalition, GreenBlue

• Identify different packaging innovations including insulated shippers to manufacturing phase change material, gel packs and temperature monitors
• Determine possible packaging trends in the future (ie a temperature containing vile package) and how they will improve patient safety and cold chain accuracy
• Learn about temperature monitoring and why it is important for product quality and your business
• Gain insight into some of the latest trends in technology and innovation
• Educate yourself on matching technology with quality and regulatory expectations

• Insight into package integrity and how it is tested
• Discover essential steps for the package development process
• Examine best practices for obtaining package integrity
• Implement package integrity as a design input for sterile medical packaging, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology products

• Top law industry professionals discuss litigation protection
• Determine strategies to protect yourself from fraud and malfunction charges in your pharmaceutical packaging and shipments

• Industry focus is shifting from protecting the product to protecting the patient
• More therapies are being applied by the patient and a quickly growing geriatric population- packaging needs to keep up with these developments
• Learn how Michigan State's simulated 'hospital' is allowing students to look critically at how packaging issued, (and misused), in real-world settings, and what the industry has learned from their tests

• Prepare for the new ways drugs are being handled and administered in pharmacies
• Learn to navigate the difference in regulatory standards when moving from Distribution to Neighborhood
• Pharmacy territory, and develop systems compliant with both
• Implement Strategies for incorporating Pharmacies and Patients into Your Supply Chain
• Determine how distribution should handle working with pharmacy chains networks

• New package delivery systems increase package integrity challenges. New technologies are required to determine package integrity of complex delivery systems.
• Container closure integrity is growing in importance with respect to package distribution. Deploying more accurate, reliable, and quantitative methods for determining package integrity increase control of product released for distribution.