Supply Chain Management in the Drug Industry: Delivering Patient Value for Pharmaceuticals and Biologics
Book Details
Author(s)Hedley Rees
PublisherWiley
ISBN / ASIN0470555173
ISBN-139780470555170
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Sales Rank506,624
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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From the Author: Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Remember, early decisions in development set the supply chain foundation for life. Seek to understand the chemistry, manufacturing & controls (CMC) information submitted to the regulatory filing. Your supply chain is limited to what goes in there – make it your business to know and influence Module 3 (CMC) of the common technical document (CTD/eCTD).
- There is no such thing as a ‘quick fix’ in supply chains because of the complex interrelationships. To get to true root-cause, it is necessary to follow the ‘systemic’ path for answers – and the path can lead to very unexpected quarters – such as the door of the supplier to your supplier’s supplier!
- Integration is king – the various disciplines of Production & Inventory Control, Procurement, Transportation/ Storage & Distribution, Information Systems and Improvement must link closely together, and with external stakeholders, to deliver the optimum results for the customer.
- Tools and techniques have their place – but firstly focus on common sense principles based on management of The Wholesome Trinity – inventory, capacity and lead-time.
- Use big picture maps and A3 Management to get your arms around issues and opportunities in the internal and extended supply chain.
- Beware of placing too much dependence on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems – only use the essential functionality identified by your strategic review of Information System needs.
- Improvement is important to maintain competitive advantage, but it must be carefully targeted at the areas that can make a difference. A kaizen event to increase overall operational effectiveness (OEE) on a non-bottleneck machine or operation, it likely to merely increase waiting time.
