Stefan Artlich

Being a mathematician and chemical engineer by profession Stefan is involved in pharmaceutical serialization since its early days in 2008 and renowned as one of the fathers of the European ‘Point-of-Dispense Verification’ model that ensures patients’ access to safe medicines. For more than seven years Stefan worked as a delegate consultant for the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) where he contributed to the successful verification pilot in Sweden in 2009 / 2010 and played a key role in the design and development of the European Medicines Verification System (EMVS) that constitutes a key component in the implementation of the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD). Once having returned from Brussels Stefan led Bayer’s activities to implement the Brazilian Track&Trace requirements in 2014 and 2015 before his focus shifted back to the roots as the responsible program manager for the timely FMD readiness of Bayer’s Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Health divisions by February 2019. Beyond his project assignments Stefan Artlich engages on a strategic level for supply chain improvements ensuring patients’ safety and uninterrupted access to medicines. As an example, he serves now the third time in a row as an elected member of the GS1 Healthcare Leadership Team that steers GS1 Healthcare’s activities for the integration of GS1 standards into the supply chain processes of the healthcare sector in order to drive patient safety and supply chain efficiency improvements not only in the private but as well in the public sector. Stefan represented Bayer in the joint USAID – UNFPA Reproductive Health Product Global Traceability Advisory Group that developed the product coding guidelines as the fundament for the unified coding approach across the aid agencies: The concept is currently rolled out and will help to reduce stock-out situations through simplified exchange of products across agency bounds.