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FutureLink, TraceLink’s annual education event (Boston, Massachusetts, May 29-31) for customers and network partners from across the life sciences and healthcare supply chain, delivers the latest industry insights and practical knowledge. Two major themes at FutureLink Boston this year are maturing systems and processes during the DSCSA stabilization period and setting the technical and network foundation for enabling business transaction exchange in the supply chain.
Kicking off FutureLink on pre-conference days (May 29, 1:00pm), TraceLink is again running our highly regarded TraceLink University (TLU) courses, free of charge, for attendees. Last year, 49 industry leaders joined our TLU sessions.
DSCSA Compliance Exceptions Course
Compliance exceptions pose a serious risk to the pharmaceutical supply chain. The Healthcare Distribution Alliance’s (HDA) “Exceptions Handling Guidelines for the DSCSA” identifies five exception categories with over 20 unique exception scenarios that may arise, halting the flow of product until they are resolved.
The TLU DSCSA Compliance Exceptions Course at FutureLink will arm attendees with a clear overview on exceptions and hands-on, step-by-step process for identifying, understanding, and resolving exceptions with your suppliers or customers.
Course highlights include:
- Identifying the root causes of DSCSA compliance exceptions and the ways that exceptions may be triggered.
- Understanding the source of the exception through inspection of data in internal systems and in conjunction with external partners and their data.
- Determining the appropriate resolution approach for the exception in conjunction with internal stakeholders and external partners.
- Resolving the exception, including adjustments of system data, communication to affected stakeholders, and compliance record keeping documentation as required.
Throughout the course, attendees will have hands-on experience in configuring and using TraceLink products, including Supply Chain Work Management (now POET), Serialized Product Intelligence, Serialized Operations Management, and Product Track, to reduce the risk and speed the resolution of DSCSA compliance exceptions.
Multienterprise Information Network Tower Playbook Course
TraceLink Multienterprise Information Network Tower (MINT) completely revolutionizes the exchange of critical business transactions at scale across supplier, customer, and partner networks. Leveraging the hundreds of thousands of network connections developed for DSCSA and global track-and-trace compliance solutions, MINT enables companies to build tight business process collaboration and gain critical supply chain intelligence across external manufacturing, direct material supplier, logistics, and other key supply chain relationships.
How can you tap into this wealth of intelligence? The MINT Playbook Course at FutureLink will give attendees a fundamental understanding of how MINT works, how to leverage it across supply chain relationships, and how to get started by building a step-by-step playbook for your organization and your unique supply network needs.
Course highlights include:
- Examining MINT use cases, transactions, and specific capabilities.
- Analyzing a specific use case example to review the transactions, transaction data, and the internal/external business process collaborators involved.
- Examining how the TraceLink network provides a springboard for quickly onboarding network partners.
- Reviewing TraceLink accelerators such as Link Actions and Transforms to reduce the time-to-value by significantly speeding up the end-to-end transaction integration process.
- Walking through the TraceLink customer and trade partner enablement process.
Attendees will walk away from this course with a concise checklist to take internally and with network partners to determine the right starting point use case, initial partners with whom to collaborate, and initial transactions to enable. This gives attendees the ability to plot their own roadmap and see immediate impact in weeks.
Seats in FutureLink TLU courses fill up quickly so we urge you to talk with your colleagues about this unique opportunity.
FutureLink 2024 Boston: Registration and More Information
Registration is open today for FutureLink 2024 Boston, which will be held at the Omni Seaport Hotel in downtown Boston. Special early discounts are now available—attend FutureLink Boston for just $495 if you register by March 1 - use code FUTURE24!
We look forward to seeing you at FutureLink Boston!
