NDC COORDINATION AND IMPLEMENTATION FORUM
Technology & Data
Infrastructure Providers
Every customer depending on your platform is asking the same question your roadmap doesn't answer: will everyone else be ready too?
FDA's 12-digit NDC format takes effect in 2033, and your customers can't finalize their own testing plans until your platform's support is committed and dated, but a roadmap alone doesn't prove the rest of their ecosystem is synchronized with your release. The NDC Forum is where technology providers demonstrate readiness directly to the organizations evaluating them.
The Challenge
Whatever your system does, whether labeling, warehouse management, traceability, e-prescribing, pharmacy management, clinical decision support, drug compendia, billing, claims, or revenue cycle, your customers are counting on you to have a committed, tested path to NDC-12 support before they can finalize their own. Your release timeline isn't just a product roadmap decision anymore; it's a dependency sitting on every customer's implementation plan.
Your customers cannot finalize their own testing plans until your NDC-12 support is committed and dated
A vague or undisclosed roadmap creates real business risk for every organization depending on your platform
Interoperability across the ecosystem depends on your system correctly handling both legacy and NDC-12 formats during the multi-year transition
Being early and visible about your readiness is a genuine competitive differentiator in this category
How the Forum Helps
Understand what your customers actually need from you, directly from the manufacturers, pharmacies, payers, and health systems depending on your roadmap.
Signal your readiness to the ecosystem through a forum built specifically to track and share vendor commitment and progress.
Get ahead of standards decisions (NCPDP, GS1, HIPAA-adopted transaction standards) that will shape exactly what your system needs to support and when.
Participate in shared testing and piloting efforts ahead of the 2030–2032 window, instead of building your own test plan in isolation.
Why Your Roadmap Alone Doesn't Answer the Question Your Customers Are Asking
Most platforms in this category, including EHRs, pharmacy management systems, claims and billing platforms, haven't yet published a public NDC-12 readiness position. That's an opportunity, not a reason to wait: the vendors who move first on this will be the ones your customers trust first.
Publishing your own roadmap answers "will your platform support NDC-12." It doesn't answer the question every customer actually has: "will my other vendors be ready at the same time as yours."
Standards bodies can tell you which technical format to build toward. They can't tell you whether the specific manufacturers, wholesalers, and payers your customers transact with will be tested and synchronized with your release.
Being the vendor with a visible, credible seat in cross-sector coordination, not just a roadmap page, is what will differentiate you to enterprise buyers evaluating readiness in 2029–2031.
The Forum is where your roadmap gets tested against the rest of the ecosystem your customers depend on, and where you can demonstrate that credibility directly to the organizations evaluating you.
The organizations depending on your platform are already coordinating. Make sure your roadmap is part of that conversation.
Get Involved
Organizational Membership
Annual Membership
$5,000
per organization
Unlimited participants from your organization
Access to all quarterly forums, strike forces, and other events
Full access to tools, outputs, and shared resources
Per-Participant Access
Virtual
Quarterly Forums
$399
per person
In-Person
Forums
TBD
per person
Attend quarterly forums on a per-person basis, ideal for organizations exploring participation before committing to full membership.
2026 Forum Dates:
September 23
December 8-9
Strike force participation available to organizational members only.