Industry-Wide Plan for Securing the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

In addition to defining the necessary elements for deploying RFID at the item-level, TI’s paper lays the foundation for a TDSI for these initiatives. The TDSI is a set of rules, specifications and common protocols that enable item-level tags and readers to work within and across the industry’s information technology ecosystem. This proposed approach has the potential to unify the industry’s efforts to achieve a safer and more secure pharmaceutical supply chain.