Almac

Almac employs a variety of methodologies and tools for clinical supplies planning, from traditional statistical applications to more advanced electronic solutions. Depending upon your particular trial requirements, Almac’s team of statisticians and clinical supplies experts will consult with you to determine the most appropriate solution. By choosing Almac for your supply planning needs, you will be able to better manage your production runs and packaging strategies, determine dispensing units and kit sizes, prevent drug shortages during trials, and reduce the costs of over-production.

Almac’s Web Drug Reconciliation™ product significantly reduces the amount of time, money, and effort spent managing the drug return/reconciliation process. Web Drug Reconciliation™ achieves these efficiencies by making key drug inventory information from the IXRS^® database available to monitors and depot personnel through a flexible and intuitive bi-layered, web-based interface.  Rather than sorting through stacks of paper, users of Web Drug Reconciliation™ manage drug returns/reconciliation electronically, a method far more efficient than using traditional paper-based methods.

As a global leader in clinical supplies management and interactive voice andweb response technologies, Almac has gained significant experience and expertise in drug pooling – the use of common inventory across programs. Pooled or common inventory is held at the depot (typically unlabeled), site level (labeled) or a combination of the two within and across studies. Almac’s IXRS^® is the engine that makes pooling possible. IXRS^® manages the kit labels, assigns drug supplies to particular protocols and patients, and assures delivery of the product at sites. The benefits of drug pooling include reductions in drug ordering, wastage, distribution, returns, and associated administrative tasks. For sites, an effective drug pooling service guarantees that patients will receive their medication during their scheduled site visit.