Health care
Pharmaceuticals and biotech
Manufacturing and research (out of scope); distribution points fit. The core operation lies outside a point-of-sale catalog; only ancillary counters, cash desks or stores could use it.
Peripheral Planned NAICS 3254
Status
Planned The coverage below describes the planned catalog as of repository commit 455b2c8. No app is released. Everything on this page is a plan. The repository contains a catalog and design documents, not a released app.
How the industry works
Operating characteristics
- research and development
- regulated manufacturing
- batch records
- cold chain
- distribution to wholesalers
Typical roles
- quality assurance
- production
- supply chain
- sales rep
- regulatory affairs
Day-to-day flows
- manufacture in batches
- release by quality
- distribute
- handle returns and recalls
- invoice wholesalers
Tenders and payments seen
- invoice on terms
- government tenders
- rebates
Inventory and assets
- batch and lot
- expiry
- cold-chain status
- quarantine
Reports they ask for
- batch genealogy
- shipments
- expiry
- returns
Integrations they need
- ERP
- MES
- serialisation vendors
A day in the life (illustrative scenario)
What the catalog covers
Statuses: C catalogued, P partial, G gap, N no claim. Modules involved: SALE, TKT, INV, PRC, DISC, RET, DLV, CONN, LOGI, CRM, LOYL, GIFT, BK, LITE, RPT, ANL, MULTI, SEC, DATA, FAIL, HW, ECOM, PLAT, SET, LNCH, PKGR.
| Capability | Status | Catalog modules |
|---|---|---|
| Selling and checkout | P Partial | SALE, TKT |
| Inventory, lots, purchasing | C Catalogued | INV |
| Pricing, discounts, tax rules | C Catalogued | PRC, DISC |
| Returns, credit, special sales | C Catalogued | RET |
| Delivery, waybills, logistics | C Catalogued | DLV, CONN, LOGI |
| Customers, loyalty, gift cards | C Catalogued | CRM, LOYL, GIFT |
| Bookkeeping and ledger | P Partial | BK, LITE |
| Reports and analytics | C Catalogued | RPT, ANL |
| Multi-store, multi-register, sync | C Catalogued | MULTI |
| Security, audit, backup, failsafes | C Catalogued | SEC, DATA, FAIL |
| Hardware and peripherals | C Catalogued | HW |
| Integrations, API, settings | P Partial | ECOM, PLAT, SET, LNCH, PKGR |
| Regulated goods (age, licence, traceability) | G Gap | no dedicated module |
| Clinical records and insurance claims | G Gap | no dedicated module |
| Manufacturing planning (routings, work centres) | G Gap | no dedicated module |
| Enterprise accounting (consolidation, intercompany) | G Gap | no dedicated module |
Gaps
- no manufacturing execution, batch-record or quality systems
- no serialisation
- no regulatory submissions
- the POS catalog fits only a small distribution counter
Closest catalog items
Items whose names or descriptions match this industry. Matching is by keyword, so read each as a pointer, not a promise.
- Recipe / BOM definition KDSKitchen display system: a screen that replaces or supplements kitchen printers. Glossary-0029
- Production batch (prep) KDS-0034
- Composite / bundle products INV-0006
- Ingredient auto-deduction on sale KDS-0033
- Double-entry journal BK-0008
- Multi-currency ledger BK-0027
- Cost centers / classes / locations BK-0030
- Cross-outlet reports MULTI-0012
- Fixed assets register BK-0083
- Pharmacy lot & prescription flags INV-0119
- Batch / lot tracking INV-0034
- Product expiry tracking INV-0033
- Age-restricted item prompt SALE-0045
- Product age restriction flag INV-0041
- Batch recall INV-0063
- Customer ID capture for boleta > [amount omitted] SALE-0077
Sub-verticals
Pharmaceutical distribution depot
wholesalers and pharmacies
Open →Sub-verticalBiotech lab supply shop
reagents with lot and expiry
Open →Regulation themes to verify
These are themes, not advice and not compliance claims.
- good-manufacturing-practice and pharmacovigilance regimes
- serialisation or track-and-trace rules
- cold-chain rules (themes only; Simca makes no claim)
Edge cases that break naive systems
- temperature excursion
- batch recall
- short-dated stock
Classification
- NAICS
- NAICS 3254 (indicative; verify codes) · sectors 31-33
- Fortune 500 industry labels
- Pharmaceuticals
- Fit
- Peripheral
No public reference was gathered for this industry; the description is domain analysis, not sourced research.
Questions
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