Clinical Trial Inventory Management

You should expect your RTSM to perform the essential role of ensuring the right drug is on site at the right time for each patient, but an advanced RTSM will do so much more.

Coupling the expertise of our RTSM specialists with robust and advanced inventory management approaches, Perceptive eClinical’s solution helps you:

Reduce your Effort

Reduce the burden of monitoring site stock against patient needs, automatically adapting a site’s stock to its recruitment rate.

Improve your Carbon Footprint

Support all of your drug supply management aims, from limiting overage and keeping wastage to a minimum, to reducing the number of shipments raised.

Inventory Management Approaches

We ensure the right drug is available at the right time for each patient. Perceptive supply experts recommend what range of strategies are appropriate for your trial, whether your needs are simple or complex.

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Advanced Inventory Management

Perceptive can optimize site supplies even when we don’t know what a patient will next receive, if the protocol allows dose titrations, modifications, or treatment pauses. This benefit is possible through a range of our standard and advanced inventory management options which include:

Fractional Prediction

Reduces drug wastage when the quantity of one of a range of IMP types needed can vary based on trial requirements. Perceptive RTSM predicts a fraction of each of the possible kits needed for an upcoming visit, thus reducing the overall amount sent to the site.

Medication Pooling

Reduces drug wastage and addresses drug availability concerns by sharing medication across different protocols in a single program. Perceptive RTSM controls the sharing of medication across protocols and facilitates just-in-time labeling, drawing on a wealth of experience supporting a range of different sponsor pooling methods and labeling plans.

Automated Supply Strategy Management

Relieves the clinical supply manager’s burden of monitoring site stock by automatically adapting the amount of medication shipped to sites based on the number of patients in screening.

Randomization Prediction

Reduces wastage by sending IMP to each site specific to upcoming treatment group assignments, when randomization codes are dedicated to the site.

Supply Simulation

A trial supply simulation service available through Perceptive’s in-house expert statistical design and trial supplies consultants, will estimate study supply requirements based on sophisticated simulation modeling methodology.

Reducing Drug Wastage

Perceptive eClinical’s dedicated team of supply experts advise on which inventory management options are best suited for your trial – the more used, the more drug wastage is reduced:

20% Reduction

In wastage with patent prediction compared to site buffer.

20% Reduction

In wastage when adding randomization prediction.

40% Reduction

When pooling IMP across 3 trials and a shared depot with prediction included.

Flexible Inventory Management

Perceptive eClinical’s RTSM experts recommend optimal inventory management settings based on protocol design, packaging plan, operational needs, and other concerns, such as high shipment costs, short shelf-life, limited supply, a large number of sites, unpredictable patient resupply needs, and the cost of drug.

Let us amend the system’s configurable settings to get the most use out of any available IMP, while minimizing risks to the study, the drug, and the patient. For example, Perceptive eClinical can support you when a new batch is delayed, getting the maximum use from a current batch, and managing supplies efficiently as you near the end of a trial.