How Artificial Intelligence Is Improving The Pharma Supply Chain

Artificial intelligence (AI) will transform the pharmaceutical cold chain -- not in the distant, hypothetical future, but in the next few years. As the president of a company that has been actively involved in the creation of an application that will utilize machine learning to generate predictive data on environmental hazards in the biopharmaceutical cold chain cycle, I've seen firsthand the promise of this technology. When coupled with machine learning and predictive analytics, the AI transformation goes much deeper than smarter search functions. It holds the potential to address some of the biggest challenges in pharmaceutical cold chain management. By aggregating and analyzing data from multiple sources -- a drug order and weather data along a delivery route, for example -- AI-based systems can provide complete visibility with predictive data throughout the cold chain.