Working Groups Overview
Influence and improve the supply chain industry by volunteering to serve on both domestic and internationally based working groups. Our members collaborate directly with their peers to understand existing challenges and determine innovative solutions that promote worldwide patient safety.
Rx-360 Working Groups provide a great opportunity for benchmarking with your peers, conducting confidential industry surveys, and participating in pharmaceutical best practice development.
Working Group Testimonials
“I’ve been on the Supply Chain Security Steering Committee for about five years now, and it’s a great way to sort of get a sense of the industry’s thinking in terms of supply chain security, and that’s upstream, downstream, logistics, distribution, illicit trade, counterfeits, and it’s been a tremendous source of knowledge and of ability to have discussions with your counterparts and other companies.”
Chris Trent, Director of Global Brand Protection for Johnson and Johnson
“Being a part of the Supplier Quality Working Group is amazing, number one for networking and meeting new people. And the second is having a chance to collaborate with our industries because in the end, it’s impact to the patients, right? So, we want to make sure we have information available and everybody can use the resources we make sure are possible and available for everybody.”
Karla Longo Gouveia, Supplier Quality Management at Merck
“I’m one of the chairs of the Data Integrity Work Group. And the big benefit again is kind of working with experts in the industry. So from the data integrity perspective, we have a true global subject matter experts participate in this working group work, meet with them on a biweekly basis, become friends with many of them, some of the benefits behind that, in addition to those friendships and gaining that is being able to work with the team to create resources and tools to help not only my company, Eli Lilly and Company, but all of the Rx-360 colleagues globally.”
Jim Henderson, Eli Lilly and Company
Supply Chain Security Steering Committee
Supply Chain Security Steering Committee
The Supply Chain Security Steering Committees goal is to identify common gaps in the supply chain.
Audit Operations
Audit Operations
The Audit Operations Group provides guidance on all aspects of the Rx-360 Audit Program. The Group routinely discusses topics and best practices associated with pharmaceutical auditing.
Data Integrity
Data Integrity
Failures in data governance and data integrity have plagued the industry for over 15 years. The US FDA, European inspectorate, and WHO have enforced such actions in the US and Europe including countries such as India, China, and Japan.
Latin America
Latin America
This working group will concentrate on educational workshops in Spanish- speaking countries around GDPs & GMPs as well as supply chain issues specific to Latin America.
Cell & Gene Therapy
Cell & Gene Therapy
Rx-360 Member companies working together to share best practices on how we approach cell and gene therapy suppliers while still in the clinical phase.
SCS Legislative Guidances
SCS Legislative Guidances
Guide the identification, interpretation, and application of legislative guidances and requirements associated with the handling of counterfeit, diverted, tampered, and stolen pharmaceutical products.
Africa & Middle East
Africa & Middle East
This Group develops educational materials for use in Africa, to educate distributors in supply chain security.
Supplier Quality
Supplier Quality
The Supplier-Led Working Group is an Rx-360 working group consisting of members from both pharmaceutical companies and leading suppliers to the pharmaceutical industry.
SCS European Expansion
SCS European Expansion
The Europe group will focus on supply chain security in the European region.
SCS Logistics Security
SCS Logistics Security
Logistics incidents that are security related involving pharmaceutical product which could eventually aid in the diversion, missing drugs, human smuggling, lost shipments, last mile courier thefts (opportunistic crimes) and other security related events in order to generate ideas resulting risk mitigation measures pertaining to pharma product.
Asia Pacific & India
Asia Pacific & India
The Asia Pacific & India Working Group develops a vibrant network of regional/global companies, protects patient safety by sharing critical information, contributes to current Rx-360 workstream outputs with information specific to these regions, and influences regional regulatory activities to improve the transparency and integrity of the supply channels to protect patient health regionally and globally.
Supplier Assessment Questionnaire Sub Team
Supplier Assessment Questionnaire Sub Team
The Rx-360 SAQ covers standard information that would be included in most supplier assessment questionnaires.