Innovation in Motion
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
Project Objectives
Pharma.Aero is starting a project to explore the applicability of next-generation digital technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence and mass data analytics, in the air cargo industry and end-to-end supply chain of life science and MEDtech industries.
The project aims to create more insights and details of the applicability of such technologies to minimize risks and ensure quality in the shipments.
Timeline
June - August
Preliminary Research & Industry Insights
July - September
October
Framework Development & Qualification Mapping
Industry Opinion Paper Publication
PROJECT
SUPPORT AND
COLLABORATION.
- Pharma.Aero Board liaison: Brussels Airport Company
- Project leads: Changi Airport Group, Airport Authority Hong Kong
- Project members: Cold Chase, Hive-Zox, KatalX, LainPharma, Mytigate, Pharma Air Logistics Group, SmartCAE, Validaide, MSD, Zoetis.
- Project manager and expert: Virginia Domina, KPMG (external consultant)