At Slingshot, we are committed to continuous innovation and ensuring seamless business continuity for our clients. As part of this commitment, we have successfully migrated all Microsoft Azure resources supporting Slingshot Cloud customers from the Classic deployment model to the modern Azure Resource Manager (ARM) model.

This transition streamlines resource management, improving the reliability and efficiency of the Slingshot SaaS infrastructure. With ARM, we can deploy multiple interconnected resources simultaneously while maintaining referential integrity—improving both deployment speed and system stability.

From a security perspective, ARM-based resources offer a significant advantage by leveraging Azure’s Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for more granular access management. Additionally, performance monitoring has been expanded, allowing us to track and optimize key parameters with greater precision.

Most importantly, this migration ensures the long-term stability of the Slingshot Cloud platform. As ARM is now the standard for Azure resource management, our clients can trust that their applications are running on a future-proof infrastructure.

The migration was conducted following thorough research and testing. The Slingshot systems’ end users experienced no disruptions during the transition. This achievement underscores our dedication to providing secure, reliable, and high-performance cloud experience for our customers.

Slingshot has announced general availability of a major release G2-17.  The new release includes 96 enhancements across 12 applications.   Highlights include a new portal application for contract manufacturing organizations, lot-control enhancements, additional material labeling flexibility, GS1 EPCIS facilities for event capture and material pedigree tracking, new alerts for late shipments or receipts, performance improvements to Slingshot’s Query Optimizer, user interface improvements and much more...

An improved Quality application accompanies this release. The testing library was expanded to cover the new functionality which was validated through the execution of 246 test scripts.  Release contents documentation and validation documentation is available for download from Slingshot’s web site.

According to Slingshot’s CEO, Paul Carr “G2-17 is our most ambitious release to date. It adds many exciting new features and continues our focus on unmatched product quality.  We are looking forward to presenting these capabilities at the upcoming American Pharma Manufacturing and Outsourcing Summit in Boston on November 18-19th at the Westin Copley Place.”

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Slingshot now offers a customer portal for its pharmaceutical customers who provide contract manufacturing services (CMOs).  The portal allows a CMO’s customers to view their inventory balances and initiate activities by entering a Service Request.

Several types of Service Requests are supported. The Receipt Request informs the CMO of material which is in transit to a CMO facility.  This includes the Ship From address, expected receipt date and lots shipped, quantities, manufacturing dates and expirations.  The Shipment Request directs the CMO to ship specific lots and quantities to a customer location.  A Destruction Request directs the CMO to destroy specific lots.  A Count Request directs the CMO to take a physical inventory of all material items and/or specific lots. A Test Request directs the CMO to perform stability testing services on a specific lot.  A Batch Request directs the CMO to process a manufacturing batch.  The request identifies all component materials and optionally, lots to be used.  All Requests require CMO review and formal acceptance prior to execution. 

The CMO portal is available to authorized users 24x7.  All that’s required is a standard browser.  Each of the CMOs customers has a profile identifying the capabilities available to them.  The customer can set up their own internal users and restrict their capabilities as well.  The portal runs in its own environment and does not have access to the CMOs network or data.  It can be installed integrated with materials management software or “stand alone” with no integration needed.

According to Paul Carr, Slingshot’s CEO, “The CMO Portal tool helps eliminate ad hoc emails.  It streamlines processes, reduces errors and saves time while ensuring complete auditability.  It is also a revenue opportunity opening the door to new services the CMO may wish to offer.  We are excited to be able to provide this to our CMO customers who make up about half of our Pharma installed base.”

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GS1 (Global Standards 1) is an international standards organization with member bodies in more than 100 countries worldwide (GS1 US, GS1 CANADA, GS1 FRANCE, etc.).  GS1 standards are the most widely used system of standards in the world.  In addition to defining standards, GS1 offers an array of tools to facilitate the adoption of these standards.  

GS1 has developed EPCIS as an open standard allowing businesses to capture and share supply chain information about the movement and status of goods.  EPCIS provides a single language for sharing information on supply chain events as materials travel throughout the supply chain — from business to business and ultimately to consumers.

The EPCIS standard makes it easier for pharmaceutical companies to meet the requirements of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA).  These include pedigree tracking, sell unit serialization, customer returns verification among other requirements. 

Slingshot is now utilizing GS1 identifiers for Products (GTIN), sell unit serial numbers (SGTIN), Supply Chain Address (SLCC), Aggregate Units, Pallets and Containers (SSCC) and Companies and Locations (GLN).

Slingshot uses the EPCIS language to record lot creation (Commissioning), packing or combining units (Aggregation), Shipping and Receiving events.  To accomplish this, the EPCIS language was added to Slingshot’s Connect tool.  Connect captures events, logs them in a database, and exports them to commercial repositories using GS1 standard web services (JSON or XML format).  EPCIS queries allow Slingshot to receive the complete history of a lot from manufacture, changes in ownership, consumption by another product, to the final consumer.  Serialized units returned by a customer are checked for “salability” using an EPCIS query (verification router service).

Slingshot has validated its EPCIS extensions using the GS1 development environment.  Implementation with a future repository will require certification for the specific repository selected.  For more information, email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.