Up until recently, outsourced drug manufacturing and packaging of products would be the responsibility of contract manufacturing organisations (CMOs). However, this is beginning to change, as contract packaging organisations (CPOs) are taking a more prominent role in the pharmaceutical supply chain in response to growing demand for more efficient, and often intelligent, packaging processes.

In this article in European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer, Dexter Tjoa, Director Corporate Strategy, outlines the role new technologies introduced by CPOs have played in the progress pharmaceutical companies have experienced in the area of operational efficiencies in the last decade.

You can read the article in full here.