Here, Scott Allison, president, Life Sciences & Healthcare, DHL, and Keith Turner, CIO Chief Development Office, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Service Logistics, DHL Supply Chain, look at the importance of blockchain in logistics.
Disruption
In the life sciences and healthcare industry, everyone is anticipating far-reaching change with the introduction of mandatory global serialisation for pharmaceuticals. New rules to ensure product integrity all the way from manufacturing to consumption may save as many as a million lives each year — Interpol’s estimate of patient deaths caused by counterfeit drugs.