DIGI 2.0

Relevance

Packaging qualification is a critical element of pharmaceutical quality and patient safety, ensuring medicinal products remain protected throughout storage, handling, and distribution. As supply chains become more global and complex, life sciences organisations face growing pressure to accelerate time-to-market, control costs, and improve efficiency while maintaining regulatory compliance. Yet current qualification practices often involve significant duplication of effort, with pharmaceutical companies repeating activities already performed by qualified packaging suppliers, while valuable supplier-generated performance and transport data remains underutilised due to concerns around standardisation, traceability, and regulatory acceptance.

GOAL

The Packaging Qualification Integration (PQI) project explores whether supplier-generated qualification data can be integrated into pharmaceutical packaging processes under appropriate quality and governance frameworks to reduce redundancy, shorten qualification timelines, and strengthen supply chain collaboration without compromising quality, compliance, or patient safety.
Through industry research, workflow analysis, stakeholder interviews, and the development of an industry opinion paper, the project seeks to assess the feasibility of this approach and stimulate informed discussion on more efficient, collaborative, and sustainable packaging qualification practices across the life sciences and logistics industries.

Project Objectives

Project Digi 2.0 aims to develop the Proof of Concept into a Prototype, the Global Pharma Tracker (GPT), by incorporating data from real shipments for a selected trade lane and expanding the platform capabilities.

Timeline

June - August

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Preliminary Research & Industry Insights

July - September

October

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Framework Development & Qualification Mapping

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Industry Opinion Paper Publication

PROJECT
SUPPORT AND
COLLABORATION.

  • Project leads: Brussels Airport Company, Changi Airport Group, Pfizer
  • Project members: Mumbai Airport, Singapore Airlines, DHL Global Forwarding, AirBridgeCargo, Amerijet, EuroAirport, Hong Kong International Airport, Johnson & Johnson, Kansai International Airport, MSD, MVD Free Airport (now LACC), Sharjah Airport
  • Project external support: Brussels Airlines, Nallian
  • Project manager and expert: Hilde Havermans, Frank Van Gelder (external consultants)

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