Which standard provides a common language for sharing data to enable supply chain visibility in pharmaceutical tracing?

• A. Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) standard.
• B. EPICS System
• C. FDA Form 3911
• D. Demand Planning

Answer: (A)

Sharing data to enable visibility across the pharmaceutical supply chain is driven by the EPCIS standard. EPCIS gives a common language and data model for recording events about products as they move—capturing what happened, where it happened, when it happened, and why (the business context). By using GS1 identifiers and a consistent event format, different trading partners’ systems can exchange and interpret track-and-trace information reliably, enabling provenance checks, recalls, anti-counterfeiting, and real-time visibility across manufacturers, distributors, and regulators. The other options aren’t designed as a cross-enterprise data-exchange standard for tracing: EPICS System isn’t a recognized standard for sharing event data; FDA Form 3911 is a regulatory reporting form, not a data-sharing standard; and Demand Planning is a forecasting process, not a data language for tracing.