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SAS® for Cold Chain Integrity
Maintaining product integrity and viability during cold chain storage and transportation for biotech, pharma and other medical consumables.
The cold chain logistics model is subject to growing regulatory and security requirements. This makes monitoring, tracking and optimizing the storage and transportation of biologics related to high-value medical consumables increasingly difficult. SAS can help you overcome these challenges.
How SAS® Helps Ensure Cold Chain Integrity
We've combined the power of SAS Analytics for IoT and Azure IoT Services with Stress Engineering’s drug supply chain expertise to provide a cloud-based cold chain integrity solution for biologics that helps you maintain product quality, minimize losses and avoid potential regulatory violations.
Storage asset health
- Maximize the performance of the capital asset you're using for storage.
Asset tracking & tracing
- Create end-to-end transparency for key assets to drive data-enabled action across the supply chain.
Product viability & integrity
- Ensure the viability and integrity of products in storage.
- Examine the temperature, humidity, location, pressure, light, orientation and shock data.
- Generate alerts that factor in the magnitude and frequency of excursions to prevent waste and ensure biologic viability.
Optimization
- Dynamically optimize the cold chain to manage risk, improve efficiency and maximize value.
- Analyze biologic supply across regions in conjunction with external data (weather, demand, COVID cases, etc.) in the area.
- Trigger alerts when low supply is anticipated, and recommend alternative biologic sources from neighboring locations.
Why choose SAS® to ensure cold chain integrity?
Transform your data, use intelligent monitoring and adopt predictive capabilities to ensure both the viability and the supply management of your biologic products. SAS for Cold Chain Integrity also proactively monitors freezers and makes real-time decisions to optimize the usage of both freezer contents and biologics in transport.
Digital chain of trust
Ensure the viability of your product and its consistency with regulatory requirements today and in the future.
Optimized supply chain
Dynamically optimize the cold chain to manage risk, improve efficiency and maximize value.
Intelligent alerting
Generate a risk matrix for products based on the frequency and magnitude of excursions to drive intelligent alerts.

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