Today Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
announced it is partnering with SAP for a blockchain medical device supply chain initiative. The platform will also leverage IoT tooling offered by SAP’s Leonardo cloud platform.
The medical device industry is very global, which means the supply chain can be complicated. Plus it’s usually critical that surgical kit is kept sterile throughout the supply chain. Another feature of the industry is to provide equipment on loan or consignment, which means returns have to be efficiently processed.
TCS’s Intelligent Field Inventory Management (iFIM) solution aims to enable traceability so that manufacturers, distributors and hospitals have visibility of particular orders.
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