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Pharma · life sciences · clinical trials

Every dose accounted for. Every degree logged.

For pharma manufacturers, CDMOs, CROs and distributors. We design temperature, location and chain-of-custody programmes for clinical-trial materials, biologics and high-value drugs — built to satisfy 21 CFR Part 11, EU GDP, DSCSA and EU FMD auditors. Hardware-agnostic across RFID, BLE and cellular sensor loggers.

21 CFR
Part 11 audit trail
GDP
EU compliant
Real-time
Excursion alerts
Serialised
DSCSA · EU FMD
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The problems

What we keep seeing.

Cold-chain excursions go unseen

A freezer drifts overnight and no one knows until the morning round. By then a batch of biologics may already be out of spec — a six-figure write-off and a deviation report.

Chain-of-custody is paper

Clinical-trial kits move between depot, courier, site and patient on signature sheets. Reconstructing who held what, and when, for an audit is slow and error-prone.

Serialisation is bolted on

DSCSA and EU FMD serialisation often sits in a silo from the rest of the supply chain, so aggregation and verification break at the pack and pallet level.

What TRACIO delivers

The use cases that consistently pay back.

Cold-chain monitoring

Continuous temperature, humidity and shock logging with real-time alerting before product goes out of spec.

Clinical-trial chain-of-custody

Sealed, audit-grade custody from depot to site to patient, with 21 CFR Part 11 electronic records.

Serialisation & aggregation

Item, pack and pallet serialisation aligned to DSCSA and EU FMD, with EPCIS event sharing.

High-value asset tracking

Locate and secure controlled and high-value drugs across the distribution network.

Excursion management

Automated quarantine and deviation workflows the moment a threshold is breached.

Last-mile & courier visibility

Cellular and GPS tracking of shipments in transit, with ETA and condition.

Vendors we work across

Hardware & software ecosystem

RFID temperature loggers · BLE condition sensors · cellular cold-chain trackers · 21 CFR Part 11-validated platforms — selected for your regulatory and environmental requirements, never by price book.

Enterprise integration

Where we plug in

SAP · Oracle · LIMS · MES · serialisation / Level-4 systems · EPCIS repositories · QMS and deviation-management platforms.

Typical KPIs

What good looks like.

21 CFR
Part 11 e-records
GDP
Distribution compliant
100%
Custody traceability
Real-time
Excursion alerts
Standards & compliance

What we design and document to

21 CFR Part 11 · EU GDP (2013/C 343/01) · DSCSA · EU FMD (Delegated Regulation 2016/161) · GS1 EPCIS · GAMP 5 · ISO 17025-aligned calibration.

Real-world use cases

Where the payback shows up.

Clinical-trial kit tracking

Sealed chain-of-custody for trial materials from depot to site, audit-trailed for the sponsor and the regulator.

Biologics cold-chain

Continuous temperature and shock logging with automatic quarantine on excursion, protecting high-value batches.

Serialised distribution

Item-to-pallet aggregation and verification across DSCSA and EU FMD, with EPCIS sharing to partners.

For clinical-trial logistics, a single temperature excursion can scrap a batch. Continuous location, temperature and shock monitoring with a 21 CFR Part 11 audit trail cut our excursion response time dramatically and took roughly 90% off audit-prep effort. It worked because TRACIO designed it compliance-grade from the outset.
Director, Clinical Supply Chain · top-5 global pharma · globalAnonymised at the client’s request. Reference available on request.
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