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TraceLink benefits

Provide real-time visibility and collaboration to your CDMO customers

The TraceLink network platform and supply chain solutions like Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT) help contact manufacturing, packaging, and development organizations digitally connect and collaborate with all of their life sciences customers, regardless of customer size or technical capabilities.

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Receive electronic forecasts for customer requirements to support better collaboration and planning.

Receive customer orders electronically with optional ERP integration, provide real-time confirmations with updates, and send shipping notices to keep manufacturing sites updated.

Integration between ERP systems ensures all constituents are operating from a single source of the truth.

Meet all current and evolving serialized product identity and traceability requirements with tightly coordinated serialization operations.

Solutions to your challenges

Discover the ways TraceLink products can increase your agility to respond to demand and supply changes while delivering high quality manufacturing services.

Demand visibility

Planning/scheduling

Visibility & collaboration

Invoicing & payment

Product serialization

Analytics
  • Electronically receive expected quarterly and annual projected material requirements from customers on the TraceLink network to improve demand planning. 
  • Provide electronic forecast confirmations directly to customers to enable customers to lock in production capacity into their plans.
  • Improve alignment with pharma customers on production quantities, due dates, order frequency, and serialization requirements to meet service level agreements (SLAs).
  • Enable your suppliers to improve their planning to minimize the bullwhip effect and lower costs based on better demand data.
Business Analyics
  • Collaborate with customers to ensure purchase orders are received with adequate lead time.
  • Use real-time integration of customer purchase orders to improve planning, production scheduling, and inbound material delivery.
  • Confirm/update purchase orders to align on delivery quantities and dates.
  • Use real-time ASNs to keep customer’s receiving and distribution operations updated on delivery times.
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  • Collaborate with customers in real-time to respond to purchase order changes and provide advice on potential supply disruptions. 
  • Get visibility to the latest customer requirements.
  • Jointly monitor ongoing purchase order exchange and confirmation activity with customers.
  • Simultaneous visibility to purchase order performance supports collaboration with customers on process improvements.
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  • Send invoices based on updated purchase orders to reduce extended payment processes.
  • Receive electronic remittances to streamline order-to-cash process.
  • Improve customer relationships with more prompt and accurate invoicing. 
  • Reduce inefficient email and phone call follow up to resolve invoice and payment discrepancies.
Logistics
  • Integrate to and exchange key serialization event data across the lifecycle (commission, aggregation, transformation, decommission) with packaging sites and lines.
  • Exchange transaction data with packaging facilities across the lifecycle from production order and transfer of serial numbers to final disposition of serial numbers.
  • Exchange serialization information and related transactions fully automated (XML, EPCIS), leverage CSV download capabilities, or leverage the UI.
  • Manage serialized inventory operations across plant and warehouse operations, including CMO and 3PL partners, including:
    -- Receiving, pick/pack, ship
    -- Commissioning, aggregation
    -- Aggregation changes
    -- Inventory and aggregation status updates
    -- Rework, relabeling, sampling, destruction

Products for your business

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Product Serialization
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The power of orchestration

TraceLink enables contract manufacturers to integrate and exchange critical transactions with all customers on the TraceLink network, the world’s largest life sciences and healthcare network. See the power of orchestration between contract manufacturers and their life sciences customers.

TraceLink enables you to integrate and exchange critical transactions with 100% of your contract manufacturers through the world’s largest life sciences and healthcare network. See the power of orchestration between life sciences companies with manufacturing partners.

1,000+

Contract manufacturers in the TraceLink network

165M+

ASNs processed in the TraceLink network

1M+

EPCIS transactions exchanged monthly

41B+

Product units serialized and tracked

Hear what the network is saying

See how companies have leveraged our network platform and solutions to meet critical challenges facing life sciences companies and contract manufacturers.

See how companies have leveraged our network platform and solutions to meet critical challenges facing life sciences companies and contract manufacturers.

Brazil Pharmaceuticals

Case study

Santen Discusses the Power of Real-Time Integration with 100% of Your CMOs

Hear Frank Binder of Santen discuss why enabling real-time exchange of business transactions with CMOs is critical to Santen Pharmaceutical's digital transformation plan.

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Case Study

Proven CMO Connectivity Prompts Pharma to Switch to TraceLink

For a large European pharma company selling a high volume of in-scope medicines, finding a solution to exchange serialization data with more than 100 CMOs by the EU FMD deadline was crucial.

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Supply chain performance

Case study

Thermo Fisher Scientific's Journey to DSCSA Readiness

David Bond at Thermo Fisher Scientific explains why his company chose to partner with TraceLink on its path to DSCSA readiness.

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Contact Manufacturer + Life Sciences Company resources

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Integrate 100% of Life Science Company-CMO Connections with MINT for External Manufacturing

Learn how a single connection to the TraceLink network using MINT enables the real-time exchange of the complete set of B2B transactions for external manufacturing processes between CMOs and their life sciences customers.

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TraceLink Named a Leader in IDC’s Worldwide Multienterprise Supply Chain Network vendor assessment

TraceLink's powerful "Integrate-Once, Interoperate with Everyone™" network model, massive scalability, and support for all types of business transactions has earned it a top leadership position in IDC's latest ranking of multienterprise supply chain commerce network providers.

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The CMO Perspective—Utilizing a Standardized Approach for Efficient Partner Onboarding

Hear how CPL implemented a three-step process that makes partner onboarding simpler and easier for all stakeholders.

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Unlock Real-Time Integration with 100% of Your External Manufacturing Partners: A Simple, Fast, and Cost-Effective Approach

Discover the fastest, easiest, and most cost-effective way to integrate and exchange data with 100% of your CMOs in real time.

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From self-paced courses to administrative certification, TLU provides your team with the tools you need to navigate the changing compliance and supply chain landscape

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Our experts and thought leaders provide the latest information and insights on supply chain digitalization, supply chain issues such as drug shortages, and emerging global track and trace compliance requirements.

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