Arvato Systems and advanco Launch Comprehensive Partnership

• Arvato Systems and advanco Combine Serialization Solutions Arvato CSDB and ARC

Arvato Systems and advanco, the world’s largest independent provider of track & trace solutions for the pharmaceutical and life science industry, are combining their expertise and launching a comprehensive partnership. The companies will offer customers in the pharmaceutical industry one of the most powerful serialization solutions for pharmaceuticals currently available on the market.

The collaboration combines advanco’s market-leading ARC platform with Arvato Systems‘ CSDB serialization platform, which is relied upon by more than 200 pharmaceutical companies worldwide to meet complex serialization requirements. The joint offering not only provides a significantly expanded range of options, but also enables cost savings by utilizing the most appropriate solutions from both platforms for each customer.

advanco’s ARC platform includes solutions such as the Serialization and Aggregation Packaging Management Cockpit, ARC MES and ARC LES, which manages all warehouse and packaging operations on the shop floor. ARC is based on a robust, modular and scalable serialization and aggregation software platform and is designed to address multi-layered challenges, from low-volume scenarios to complex heterogeneous environments.

As a leading international IT specialist and multi-cloud service provider, Arvato Systems supports companies from various industries in their digital transformation. Arvato Systems has made a name for itself as a digitalization partner for the healthcare industry in particular. In addition to well-known solutions such as the Platbricks® Healthcare Suite and Arvato CSDB, Arvato Systems has been successfully operating the central services of the telematics infrastructure in Germany since 2013.

Serialization is becoming increasingly mandatory for pharmaceutical manufacturers in order to ensure the authenticity and traceability of medicines throughout the supply chain from manufacturer to end consumer. “Governments across the globe are mandating ever more complex serialization requirements,” says Alf Goebel, CEO at advanco. “It therefore follows that serialization providers need to be ever-more flexible in their approach, while offering incredibly complex solutions. The comprehensive partnership offers pharmaceutical manufacturers the best of both worlds by allowing them to choose components from both ARC and CSDB in a completely customizable manner dependent on their needs. This will provide them with some of the most intuitive, flexible serialization solutions available in the world today, capable of meeting the specific serialization needs of all countries worldwide.”

Stefan Moch, Vice President Health at Arvato Systems, also emphasizes: “Serialization solution providers are judged by their ability to offer complex solutions in a cost-efficient manner. By joining with advanco, clients will benefit from two of the most powerful serialization tools, which can be blended in a way that will by incredibly time and cost-efficient in the long-term.”

About advanco
As the leading provider for Levels 2 to 5 Item Level Serialization, advanco has been offering extensive, holistic and mission critical solutions in the ?elds of supply chains and track and trace since the early 1980s. In addition to serialization, advanco covers all aspects of the manufacturing consulting process across the entire supply chain, including everything from raw material handling to process flow and equipment specification right through to the distribution and warehouse stage. Advanco’s industry-leading software platform is known as ARC. This end-to-end solution works seamlessly through manufacturing, packaging, and along the entire supply chain, featuring track and trace.

The software is customized to suit current and future needs, while optimizing existing customer systems. The ARC solution offers maximum flexibility, extremely high security, and governmental compliance, without sacrificing quality standards – the overall result of a significant expansion in the integration of essential SAP solutions which is already providing customers with a significant competitive advantage.

Advanco is a portfolio company of Parabellum Investments, the family office of founder and CEO, Rami Cassis. More information can be found at www.advanco.com