ePedigree Solutions Resource Center

Welcome to the ePedigree Solutions Resource Center

This portal is provided by Ross Enterprise to help pharmaceutical manufacturers comply with current and impending ePedigree regulations while also ensuring the required software tools integrate with existing systems to ensure minimal costs and minimal disruption to operations. So why the focus on ePedigree? Since 2000, FDA criminal investigations of drug counterfeiting have increased sixfold. With the U.S. pharmaceutical market reaching annual sales of $200 billion, drug counterfeiters have become highly sophisticated, infiltrating the drug supply with "knock-offs" that appear to be identical to legitimate drugs. To counter this growing epidemic, pharmaceutical companies and federal and state regulatory agencies are increasingly trending toward requirements for drug "ePedigrees." More on ePedigree Issues >>

ePedigree Basics

An electronic pedigree, or "ePedigree," is an ever-growing electronic chain of custody detailing a drug's path through the supply chain, in which each company involved in the manufacture or distribution of the drug adds to the ePedigree. The seller identifies the drugs and the full chain of custody, then certifies the pedigrees and transmits them in advance to the trading partner receiving the drugs, who authenticates the ePedigrees. When a drug shipment arrives, the pedigrees are matched to the products and signed, verifying their accuracy. ePedigree software maintains the product-to-pedigree match while the products are in inventory.