A Simulation of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain to Provide Realistic Test Data

The amount of counterfeit pharmaceuticals in the Europeanpharmaceutical supply chain increased enormously inthe past years. Thus, the European Commission introducedan amendment which will lead to new information systems.No realistic test data for these information systems isavailable yet which hinders the progress in designing andimplementing appropriate information systems. We make afirst step to close this gap by providing realistic test datawhich respects the upcoming legislative changes. For thispurpose, we provide four different scenarios which differ insupply chain size and an aspect of the legal requirementswhich is still subject to consideration. The test data isavailable on the web, so researchers and software engineerscan use it to evaluate their information systems.

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