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News 2008
 
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Serialization in
  the Drug Supply Chain
  The Pharmaceutical Industry is Strategizing Beyond Compliance
   
 
Advancing along the Supply Chain
  Real-time technology gets ready for prime time as biopharm growth and counterfeiting raise supply-chain stakes.
   
 
Walgreens's Prescription for Error Prone Shipments:RFID
  Working with Blue Vector Systems, Walgreens has implemented RFID to help significantly raise the level of accuracy of the store fulfillment process.
   
 
Blue Vector CEO To Co-Present at CBI's Life Sciences
  Anti-Counterfeiting Forum With DPT Laboratories
  Mike Gardner, Blue Vector's president and CEO, will co-present a workshop with the Logistics Director for DPT Laboratories, Alan Green, at the Center for Business Intelligence's (CBI) Premier Forum for the Life Sciences Industry on Anti-Counterfeiting and Anti-Diversion Strategies
   
 
Walgreens Launches Next-generation RFID-enabled
  Distribution Center
Largest U.S. drugstore chain incorporates Blue Vector technology as key enabler towards goal of 100 percent shipping accuracy
   
 
Walgreens deploys RFID for 100% accuracy
  In a large-scale deployment, the US drug store retailer Walgreens has decided to use RFID technology in its day-to-day operations to help achieve the company's goal of 100% shipping accuracy from its distribution centres to its stores
   
 
September 16, 2008
  Walgreens Deploying RFID in Distribution Centers
The retailer will use RFID tagging to reduce the problem of products getting shipped to the wrong stores
   
 
September 16, 2008
  Walgreens Opens RFID-Enabled Distribution Center
The drugstore chain's DC in Anderson, S.C., has tagged 170,000 totes used to supply merchandise to 700 stores throughout the Southeast, enabling the company to prevent errors and streamline its shipping processes
   
 
September 16, 2008
  Walgreens RFID Deployment Announced
Walgreens has integrated RFID with its shipping, warehouse management and material handling operations
   
 
September 16, 2008
  Blue Vector has Walgreens’ RFID prescription
Blue Vector Systems has announced that Walgreens will integrate its software and infrastructure solutions in a large-scale RFID supply chain system deployment
   
 
September 16, 2008
  Walgreens Gets RFID
Walgreens has embarked on a large-scale radio frequency identification deployment
   
 
September 16, 2008
  Walgreens unveils RFID at its DC in Anderson, S.C.
The giant retailer announced on Tuesday that it has enabled 170,000 totes with RFID
   
 
September 2008
  RFID Briefs
Walgreens has effectively deployed an RFID system at its new distribution system in Anderson, South Carolina
   
 
Week of September 15, 2008
  Drug Chain Hooked on RFID
Walgreens released details of the RFID implementation at its “next-generation” distribution center in Anderson, SC.
   
 
August 23, 2008
  Blue Vector featured on TalkTech.tv
TalkTech.tv's Kristin White interviews Blue Vector's founder, Anurag Mendhekar
   
 
August 2 2008
  Saved by the Delay
Postponement of California's deadline gives the supply chain time to refine ePedigree solutions.
   
 
Summer 2008
  Pharmacy & Medical Packaging News
(Summer Tracking & Tracing Issue)
Editor Daphne Allen discusses the business impact of serialization and item-level track and trace capabilities.
   
 
June 26, 2008
  Axway lines up partners: Blue Vector, Aegate and Gephardt Pharmaceutical Commerce
   
June 13, 2008
  Global Track-and-trace Alliance Announced by Axway,
Blue Vector and Gebhardt
Alliance offers solution framework for shipments, supply chain transparency
   
June 12, 2008
  GPS Past the Destination
Sensors for global positioning are being used in new ways to improve supply chain efficiencies.
   
 
June 11, 2008
  Axway - Blue Vector - Gebhardt Announces Global Track
And Trace Alliance
Axway, Blue Vector and Gebhardt have created an alliance to provide a complete solution for secure and efficient prescription drug supply chain.
   
 
June 2, 2008
  How to Deploy a Nine-Party EPCIS Network
Within Two Months
A recent demonstration showed just how easy it is to use the Electronic Product Code Information Services standard to solve real supply chain business problems.
   
 
Packaging World Magazine, May 2008
  Authentication That Works
An assortment of track-and-trace technologies are helping these three drug companies in their fight against counterfeiting and diversion.
   
 
Future Pharmaceuticals Magazine
  Raising the Bar: Blue Vector Joins Purdue Pharma
to Discuss RFID in Pharma

Q1 2008
Podcast
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Congress to Consider National ePedigree Standard
  Apr 30, 2008
  PharmaExec.com
   
 
California Pedigree Postponement Shifts Focus to Serialization
  Apr 30, 2008
  Serialization and authentication projects will move ahead undeterred-and in fact could be done in a more planned, integrated manner than the forced march to the January 2009 deadline would have allowed
   
 
Pharmaceutical Commerce
  April 24, 2008
  RFID Journal Live event highlights: Blue Vector and IBM Track-and-trace vendors forge ahead in the face of California pedigree postponement
   
 
Blue Vector unveils versatile e-pedigree system
  April 22, 2008
  UsingRFID.com
   
 
RFID Product News
  Video: Blue Vector: Inside Remote Inventory Management John Beans, Vice President of Marketing for Blue Vector, gives an overview of the benefits that RFID can provide in remote inventory management.
   
 
2008 Supply & Demand Chain Executive Pros to Know
  Honoring supply chain leaders building their companies' 21st century supply chains
   
 
February 16, 2008
  Dawn of the App Aware Network
Information Week
   
   
News 2007
 
December 14, 2007
  Blue Vector Wins Top Honors
SCAN: The Data Capture Report
   
   
November, 2007
  RFID in the Cold Chain
With the introduction of more easily deployable infrastructure systems, RFID is used to monitor the stock levels, safety, and security of refrigerated items in remote locations.
   
   
October 25, 2007
  A Look Ahead to RFID in 2008: A prediction of how some of 2007’s RFID deployments will translate into adoption trends in the coming year.
   
   
October 1
  Promoting RFID for E-Pedigree, Hospital Patient Safety, and Supply Management
   
   
October 2007
  InfoWeek: The Business Case For An Internet Refrigerator
   
   
Fall 2007
  Journal of Healthcare Information Management
Enterprise Visibility: Putting the Flow Back into Clinical Workflow
   
September, 2007
  Baird Equity Research: AmerisourceBergen Unveils RFID-Based Specialty Drug Delivery Solution
   
   
September, 2007
  RF skills shortage fails market opportunities
The RF world faces a challenge of declining numbers of qualified people to help address common design challenges.
   
   
September, 2007
  RFID Update: New RFID Medical Refrigerators Deployed at 75 Hospitals
   
   
September, 2007
  Finding Creative Solutions: Practical lessons from recent large-scale deployments of RFID
   
   
September 2007
  Grocery Head Quarters: Keeping Tabs: RFID technology is tracking everything from produce in the field to promotional displays on the sales floor.
   
   
August 2007
  Parcel: War Stories: Practical lessons from recent large-scale deployments of RFID
   
   
July 19, 2007
  Blue Vector Named Top 100 Innovator by Supply & Demand Chain Executive
   
   
June 5, 2007
  Watch Out, Counterfeiters! Blue Vector's Got a New RFID Pharma Platform
   
   
April 27, 2007
  Scan: The Data Capture Report: BlueVector –The Only True Edgeware Company?