To fine tune lot and shipment recommendations and provide a more accurate forecast, Bluefin supports Do Not Ship and Do Not Dispense values.
Value | Description |
Do Not Ship (DNS) | The number of days, before expiration, that the lot at a depot is restricted from being shipment to a site. DNS has no impact on drug products already at a site. |
Do Not Dispense (DND) | The number of days, before expiration, that the lot can no longer be dispensed at a site. This is commonly used when your drug product needs to have a minimum expiration time after being dispensed.
For example, a drug product is a tablet taken daily over the course of a month by the participant, so the drug product must be dispense at least a month before the product's expiration date.
Bluefin will only recommend shipments which allow dug products to be dispensed before this DND cutoff. A value of 0 allows drug products to be dispensed up until the expiration date on the corresponding lot. |
DNS/DND values impact the lot recommendation algorithm separately for each individual part. Once recommended lots are accepted, the generated lots will have the same DNS/DND values. These DNS/DND which will be considered during forecasting.