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Pharmaceutical distribution
IT for distributors who answer to the FDA and the DEA.
DSCSA. DEA. State boards. Supplier audits. Your systems have to produce the evidence, often on software older than half your staff.
In your vocabulary
What lands on our desk at a drug wholesaler.
Traceability.
Getting the ERP to exchange serialized data with your DSCSA platform. And holding vendors to what “integrated” was supposed to mean.
Controlled substances.
The reports and records your compliance lead needs: order-monitoring views, license checks that can stop a shipment, counts with a name and a time on them.
Customer onboarding.
Applications, license verification and know-your-customer steps that leave a record, instead of a folder and a memory.
EDI.
Who finds out when an order doesn’t arrive. In a lot of companies the honest answer is: the customer.
The system of record.
IBM i and AS/400 systems documented, access controlled, succession planned. Before the programmer retires, not after.
Everything else.
Microsoft 365, security, laptops, the network, the website and the customer portal. One team. One invoice.
Two clocks
The deadline and the retirement party are on the same calendar.
27 Nov 2027
The last DSCSA exemption, for small pharmacies, ends. Wholesalers have to be exchanging package-level data with those customers by then.
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, DSCSA exemptions.
69%
of IBM i shops name skills as a top concern, ahead of security. The people who can change the system are retiring.
Source: Fortra 2026 IBM i Marketplace Survey, reported by IT Jungle.
What we’re not
We don’t replace your specialists. We make them deliver.
- Not a compliance consultancy.
- Not your DSCSA software vendor.
- Not an RPG programming shop.
We’re the people who sit on your side of the table with all three: scoping the work, checking the claims, reading the invoices.
We do this today for a licensed pharmaceutical wholesale distributor. We don’t certify compliance, and we don’t file anything with a regulator on your behalf.
Proof
We do this today.
- We run IT for a licensed pharmaceutical wholesale distributor that answers to the FDA, the DEA and state boards of pharmacy.
From a current engagementNew laptops used to be built by hand. Now they set themselves up in about 30 minutes.
From a current engagementA decades-old ERP, documented: 12,384 source members mapped into one architecture book.
From a current engagementEmail, files and meetings moved to Microsoft 365, with multi-factor sign-in switched on.
Questions
Asked by distributors.
Do you replace our DSCSA software?
No. Your traceability platform stays. We make the ERP and the platform exchange data the way the contract said they would, and we hold the vendor to it.
Do you support IBM i and AS/400 systems?
We document them, control who has access, manage the people who program them, and plan for the day those people retire. We don’t write RPG. We manage the ones who do.
Can you get us ready for an inspection or a supplier audit?
We make your systems produce the records an inspector or auditor asks for: who had access, what changed, which licenses were checked, counts with a name and a time on them.
Your compliance lead owns the answers. We make sure the evidence exists. We don’t certify compliance.
We already have vendors for the ERP, EDI and the help desk. What’s missing?
Somebody in charge of all of them. That’s the job: one person on your side of the table who scopes the work, checks the claims and reads the invoices. How the service works.
How big does a distributor need to be?
Roughly 25 to 150 people, with a regulator to answer to and no IT leader on staff. Smaller than that, the free invoice review is still worth doing.
Start here
Two invoices. Two business days.
Send the last two bills from whoever handles your IT. We’ll tell you what you’re paying for, and whether it’s fair. Free.