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High product value, short product shelf-life: Solving the Biopharma-supply...
Reducing waste in Biopharma operations is a key initiative for many supply chain leaders across the industry. High product values, highly regulated operations, limited product shelf-lives, and...
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Solving the Biopharma supply chain conundrum: an on-demand webinar
A few weeks ago we sponsored a very successful webinar with SCMWorld entitled: “High product value, short product shelf-life: Solving the Biopharma-supply chain conundrum through enhanced flexibility,...
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Special Notice: Kinaxis would like to invite the public to participate in an open Twitter chat about S&OP trends and strategies. Follow the discussion tomorrow (Oct 5th) from 1:00pm – 2:00pm EDT...
View ArticleS&OP: Where’s the technology? Right here!
Seldom do we get the opportunity to compare 2 opposing views in as timely a fashion as the opportunity provided by the First Thing Monday blog by Kevin O’Marah (Group Vice President of Supply Chain...
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Startling supply chain stats from Gartner Healthcare Exchange
Having had some disagreement with a previous post by Kevin O’Marah of Gartner about S&OP, I was very pleased to get his weekly “First Thing Monday” in my inbox the other day. It is titled...
View ArticleTransforming the Pharma Supply Chain Part 1
Can you achieve an acceptable level of supply availability without the current waste? There is no question that the Pharma industry must deal with a unique combination of supply chain and regulatory...
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Taking note of best practices across industries As mentioned in Part 1 of this post, despite the unique aspects of the Pharma industry, the bulk of the supply chain management issues are largely common...
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Bio pharma and high tech electronics – the same or different?
I recently attended the Bio Manufacturing Summit 2011 in San Diego focused on managing the supply chain in the bio pharma industry. My background is with the high tech electronics supply chain and I...
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Cross industry knowledge transfer: Can lessons learned in Pharma apply to...
I was talking to another consultant recently about issues one of their customers had with obsolescence in the high tech electronics industry. He said with all the rapid advances in technology, it is...
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Kinaxis life sciences newsletter: Featuring complimentary analyst case study...
We are in the final days for offering complimentary access to the Kinaxis life sciences newsletter, which includes a Gartner Case Study: How Amgen Reinvigorated Its Supply Planning Process (Barry...
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What does excellence in network planning & optimization look like?
This is a story Elisabeth Kaszas, Director of Supply Chain at Amgen, will describe as she speaks at LogiPharma Europe. A Journey towards Excellence in Network Planning & Optimization: Rapid product...
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Supply chain success story: Pharmaceutical customer significantly improves...
Today, we want to feature a case study of one of our pharmaceutical customer’s supply chain. We know Life Science companies are faced with fragmented demand chains with varying regulatory requirements...
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We Are On Our Way to LogiPharma in Princeton, NJ!
We’re ready for a full conference schedule this fall. And, tomorrow we are headed to Princeton, New Jersey for LogiPharma – held at the Westin Princeton, September 17 – 19, 2013. On Tuesday morning,...
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The Maturity of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Several colleagues and I attended the recent LogiPharma 2013 Pharmaceutical Supply Chain conference in Geneva, Switzerland. We were fortunate enough to have a customer, Elisabeth Kaszas of Amgen, speak...
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What ails the pharmaceutical supply chain?
It is always dangerous to draw too many parallels between companies, and yet benchmarking is one of the most effective ways of expressing comparative performance. The Gartner Supply Chain Top 25, which...
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Chinese Hamster Ovaries, Medicines, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain
I am fascinated by the changes happening in the pharmaceutical industry and spent the latter part of last week in San Diego at the 6th Biomanufacturing Summit getting some deep exposure to a sector...
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Biomanufacturing closely tied with supply chain
With regards to the continuous efforts in pharmaceutical industry, we certainly see a great improvement in the US, California and how much the 632% increase in employment between years 2006 – 2011 has...
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On the road again! LogiPharma Europe – April 8-9, 2014
Trevor Miles, vice president of thought leadership and industry principle, life sciences We’re excited to be participating in LogiPharma Europe 2014 in Basel, Switzerland! This year’s conference is...
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5 Drivers of Supply Chain Complexity in the Life Sciences Industry
I’ve attended several Life Sciences events recently (including Biomanufacturing Summit) and it’s quite clear that these supply chain teams are working in a new, complex world. Not only do they need to...
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7 Life Sciences Supply Chain Processes That Require an Integrated Approach
The emerging or intensifying industry dynamics that I discussed in an earlier blog post, along with significant shifts in strategy, are having a direct and material impact on the way Life Sciences...
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