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Volume: 12 Issue: 06 | Jun 2025
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PHARMA SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING SMART CONTRACT Prof. S.A. Dabhade*1, Aditya Wable*2, Dev Chavan*3, Aishwarya Shinde*4, Atole Akansha*5 1*
Professor, Dept Of Computer Engineering, SVPM COE, Malegaon Bk (Pune), India. Student, Dept Of Computer Engineering, SVPM COE, Malegaon Bk (Pune), India. ---------------------------------------------------------------------***-----------------------------------------------------------------2,3,4,5*
Abstract :- This study describes a blockchain-based strategy to improving traceability in the pharmaceutical supply chain, with the goal of combating counterfeit pharmaceuticals and increasing product legitimacy. The suggested approach removes middlemen, guarantees data provenance, and gives users a safe, unchangeable transaction history by utilizing smart contracts and decentralized storage. Centralized control, a lack of information, and complicated stakeholder behavior make it difficult to track products effectively in a healthcare supply chain that includes raw material suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, hospitals, and patients. This intricacy makes it easier for counterfeit medications to infiltrate, which the World Health Organization reports are a major cause of death, especially for children, and make up as much as 30% of medications sold in developing nations. Additionally, counterfeit medications cause the pharmaceutical industry to suffer significant financial losses. The proposed method offers a distributed and easily accessible way to keep an eye on every phase of the medication supply chain by introducing a smart contract architecture that verifies data provenance, traceability, and immutability. We describe the entity-relation diagram, operational algorithms, and architecture of the smart contract system in detail and verify that it is effective in enhancing supply chain transparency. As evidenced by our findings, this blockchain framework provides a general, scalable approach for secure traceability that can be applied to a variety of pharmaceuticals supply chains, helping to create a reliable, impenetrable drug tracking and verification system. KEYWORDS: Blockchain, Pharma Supply Chain, Counterfeit, Medicines, Drugs
1. INTRODUCTION DETAILS OF PROJECT WORK
component of the project is the smart contract system architecture, which provides an immutable transaction history accessible to all supply chain stakeholders, including raw material suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies, hospitals, and patients. This transparency across each stage of drug distribution improves efficiency and accountability, addressing the essential requirement for traceable information within a complex network of multiple stakeholders. The pharmaceutical supply chain faces significant challenges related to transparency and control, which are exacerbated by its multi-tiered structure and a lack of information-sharing among participants. Issues such as centralized control, fragmented information flow, and stakeholder competition lead to inefficiencies and enable counterfeit pharmaceuticals to enter the market. Counterfeit drugs pose severe risks to public health, particularly in underdeveloped nations where up to 30% of drugs may be counterfeit. This blockchain- based solution tackles these issues by introducing smart contracts that facilitate reliable traceability and validation processes, making it more difficult for counterfeit drugs to bypass checkpoints undetected. The project describes the smart contract code and algorithms controlling pharmaceutical product traceability and verification in order to verify the efficacy of the system. These algorithms are intended to track and record every transaction in the supply chain, providing a continuous and unalterable record of the drug's journey from manufacturer to end user. In order to evaluate the system's performance, we also offer a variety of implementation techniques and testing scenarios. According to our research, the suggested approach greatly improves traceability, lowers inefficiencies, and offers a general framework that can be used to other pharmaceutical goods. The system's decentralized and transparent architecture fosters stakeholder confidence while also setting a new standard for combating counterfeits in the global pharmaceutical supply chain.
In order to ensure product authenticity, reduce the risk of counterfeit medications, and eliminate reliance on central authorities or intermediaries, this project proposes a blockchain-based framework that uses smart contracts and decentralized storage to improve traceability and data provenance within the pharmaceutical supply chain. A key
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