Serialisation Technology was introduced to protect the pharmaceutical supply chain from infiltration by falsified and substandard medicines. The implementation of serialisation systems required a substantial investment by pharmaceutical manufacturers. This study investigated the impact of serialisation on the operational efficiency and and productivity in Irish pharmaceutical sites. [...] The study identified a trend where Irish pharmaceutical sites are moving away smaller batch production and moving toward larger batches so as to gain greater efficiencies. The research also proposed the use of a serialisation depreciation factor [...] as a method to determine the impact of serialisation on the cost of goods sold.
