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Inventory Reconciliation
In the United States, pharmaceutical companies may request that sales representatives perform an inventory reconciliation from one to twelve times a year to remain compliant with the Prescription Drug Marketing Act (PDMA). (Sampling regulations vary significantly in North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.) If sales representatives' physical sample inventories do not match their disbursement and transaction histories, they may perform inventory adjustments to justify the discrepancies. For more information, see Reconciling an Inventory Period.
It is also possible to create sample products by lot numbers and to disburse samples to contacts by lot numbers and yet not reconcile by lot numbers. For more information, see Reconciling an Inventory Period.
PDMA Compliance and Lot Numbers
Companies in the United States may need to perform additional tasks to meet PDMA requirements. According to the Food and Drug Administration's Final Ruling of December 3, 1999 (21 CFR Part 203 and 205), samples must also be tracked by lot number to the level of disbursement. Siebel Samples Management provides additional functionality that allows you to meet this lot number tracking requirement. For more information on using lot numbers, see How a Samples Transaction Works.
Inventory Periods
Since samples inventory reconciliation can happen as often as once a month, Siebel Samples Management allows you to reconcile as often as you like and provides three types of inventory periods for maximum flexibility. These period types are described in Table 7.
The default Siebel Samples Management configuration provides two unreconciled periods: one active period and one inactive period. The Siebel administrator can control the number of unreconciled periods allowed. For more information, see Reconciling an Inventory Period.
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Siebel Life Sciences Guide Published: 18 April 2003 |