To provide patients with timely access to novel and effective therapeutics, pharmaceutical organisations must maintain robust, trustworthy supply chains. The supply chains are growing increasingly global and complex, opening them up to dangerous quality control and safety issues like theft, fraud, and counterfeiting. Jaleel Shujath at Absorption Systems explains how advanced technologies, such as blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI), can help to overcome the challenges of supply chain fraud and theft and ensure that global supply chains remain safe, agile, visible, and reliable.