Healthcare Distribution Management Association Releases New 852 Electronic Data Interchange Guidelines
The HDMA 852 Product Activity Guidelines can enable trading partners to efficiently communicate current inventory levels, drop ship quantities, quantities sold, forecasted demand, out-of-stock products and more. The HDMA 852 Product Activity Guidelines also can help manufacturers better plan, ship or propose inventory to distributors based on near real-time changes in supply quantities. The transaction set also can support a more consistent understanding of product activity data, and more accurately reflect current business requirements.
"Encouraging the use of EDI transaction sets is one element of HDMA's goal to optimize supply chain efficiencies, streamline business processes and increase communications between trading partners," said Perry Fri, HDMA Senior Vice President of Industry Relations. "HDMA is committed to continually improving business relationships through the innovative use of current and emerging technologies, and these voluntary guidelines will be a valuable tool used to help distributors communicate accurate supply levels to their manufacturer partners. In doing so, manufacturers can work to further ensure that distributors are efficiently re-supplied with the products they need to serve retail pharmacies, nursing homes, clinics, physician offices and other providers, in all 50 states."
"The automated exchange of product activity information among supply chain partners helps companies better satisfy customer demand and drive out unnecessary cost," said Jeff Denton, AmerisourceBergen Corporation's Director of Supply Chain Management and member of the HDMA e-Commerce Task Force. "Using these guidelines will enable greater levels of cooperation and transparency between trading partners in the healthcare supply chain, effectively enhancing companies' ability to deliver value."
The creation of the 852 Product Activity Guidelines was supported by a grant from Axway. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.ShopHDMA.org.
About HDMA
The Healthcare Distribution Management Association (HDMA) and its members are committed to patient safety by delivering life-saving health products and services through a secure and efficient healthcare distribution system. These primary, full-service healthcare distributors are responsible for ensuring that billions of units of medication are safely delivered -- to tens of thousands of retail pharmacies, nursing homes, clinics and providers -- in all 50 states. HDMA and its members are the vital link in the healthcare system that is responsible for medicine safety, quality, integrity and availability in the marketplace. Through leadership on public policy and industry best practices, HDMA and its members focus on providing value, removing costs and developing innovative solutions to deliver care safely and effectively.
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