The Monash Pharmacy project, a phased project with participants
representing healthcare manufacturers and wholesalers, hospital
pharmacy and tertiary education institutions, aimed to set the standards
for eCommerce and supply chain management in the healthcare and
pharmaceutical industries in Australia.

Phase One, completed in mid-2004, demonstrated that the GS1 System could deliver benefits when implemented within the hospital pharmaceutical supply chain. This phase incorporated the use of EANCOM-format electronic purchase orders, purchase order acknowledgements and dispatch advice messages between suppliers and the hospital pharmacy of a major Australian hospital. Phase Two commenced in mid-2005 and involved broader implementation of the processes used during the first phase to additional
suppliers as well as to all hospitals in the Southern Health network. In addition, the scope was expanded to include a data synchronisation pilot via the National Product Catalogue (NPC). Phase Three commenced in mid-2008 and will broaden the project scope further.