allpack group ag is a small medium sized Contract Packaging Organisation (CPO) based in Switzerland with an ambitious agenda for the digital transformation of the pharma supply chain.
In recent years the company has focused exclusively on life sciences, offering inline and offline packaging options to align with specific packaging needs of the pharmaceutical industry.
“Pharma packaging is our passion” says Christoph Staub, CEO of allpack group ag.
“We are a small company but very innovative. I have confirmation from our customers that despite our relatively small size, we are at the leading edge of digital transformation in packaging”.
“We were one the first contract packaging partners to introduce traceability technology into our processes and have more than 12 years experience in this area.”
allpack already deliver e-leaflets and e-patient information packs in Japan, a demanding market where leaflets are now mandatory.
“We provide dashboards to our customers that allows them to directly feed business-relevant information into our operations and also to monitor their products within our operations”
However, Christoph says the pharmaceutical industry still has much to do in digitising the analogue processes and connections between industry partners.
The advantages of working with a specialist CPO
Christoph explains the benefits of working with a dedicated Contract Packaging Organisation, compared to a CDMO that includes a packaging service.
While acknowledging the benefits to having a single point of contact that can take your product from manufacturing through to packaging stage, Christoph says “the big challenge for a CMO is to balance two very different elements of business and technology. The business acumen between manufacturing and packaging are two different animals. It’s a challenge to keep up with the market in both areas”.
“Our experience is that if you focus exclusively on packaging, you can have much more competence in areas such as traceability, brand protection, sustainable packaging materials. Furthermore, you can be much more effective in high demanding sub-segments such as orphan drugs and highly individualised products lines. The classical CDMO usually has a preference to run larger batches than what we do as a pure and focused packaging contract partner.”
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