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Controlling costs in pharmaceutical drug development

A global pharmaceutical company wanted to benefit from globalisation and from the effectiveness of their separate country operations which had disparate operating, regulatory and market requirements. Resultant benefits included cost reduction and quality improvements at corporate regional and local levels. Performance improvement was demonstrated by measurement against agreed clinical trial milestone targets. Read more

 

 

Planning and Customer Service Improvements

A pharmaceutical facility specialising in antibiotics production was under threat as many of its formulations were coming ‘off patent’. Costs needed to be significantly reduced and consistency of customer service improved to compete with generic competition and ensure the longer-term viability of the site. The project focused on the operational planning system and through a series of facilitated workshops covered understanding the formal/informal processes, challenging the ‘status quo’ and defining a new set of processes. This was followed by documentation and training, pilot studies and roll out.

The outcome of the project, which resulted in new operational planning and scheduling processes, fully reflected process capability/constraints and provided effective decision making feedback loops.

 

Technology Transfer

A pharmaceutical company producing asthma medicines had been subject to product recalls and negative regulatory audits. One of the main areas of concern was the technology transfer process between product development and manufacturing. Working on a variety of formulations including metered dose aerosols, solid dosage forms and small volume sterile liquids we developed a sustainable technology transfer process which ensured that the transfer mechanism between the development and operations functions was robust, fully documented and compliant with international regulatory guidelines. Outcomes included successful regulatory audits and better team working across the departments responsible for bringing products to market. This enabled product launches to be delivered to time and cost targets.

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