Managing the complex logistics of your operation is, of course, highly dependent on your ability to stay on top of an industry inundated with drug products, prices, and packages that grow and change constantly. You have to stay on top of that information to achieve your business goals of enhanced customer service, transaction accuracy, and operational efficiency—while minimizing inventory costs.

Consider, for example, a case where you're serving as the sole source for an independent pharmacy. That pharmacy relies on your drug substitution program; it trusts that when it has a standing order for certain generic drugs (say fluoxetine in 20mg capsules, 100 capsules to a bottle) that you'll always send them the least expensive equivalent product available that fits their standing order.

The only way to meet such demands is through ready access to drug products that you can group in a variety of ways, including: package size, therapeutic class, lowest cost, brand/generic status, or manufacturer.

And that's exactly what First DataBank enables you to do. In addition to being the de facto standard for drug information throughout the healthcare industry, our exemplary vocabulary practices, the granularity of our data, and our name-based drug identifiers simplify extremely focused product searches—right down to package-level details.

Equally important, we can help you keep operational costs down, especially for information technology, because we remove the headache and ongoing expense of creating and maintaining huge drug databases in an industry where products and prices change at a devastating clip.

In short, First DataBank sets the standard for providing user-centric drug information for drug wholesalers.