Supply Chain View from the Field

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Since graduating from the NC State Jenkins MBA program in 2006, Joydeep Ganguly has risen through the ranks at Biogen Idec – the world’s oldest independent biotechnology company and the largest biotech employer in North Carolina. He posed the following scenario: You are the COO of a Biotech company tasked with designing a supply chain.

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QAD

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Manufacturing in Belgium. Typical manufacturing products made in Belgium include engineering and metal products, automobile assemblies, transportation equipment, scientific and precision instruments, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, textiles, glass, petroleum and food and beverages. Manufacturing accounts for about 22 percent of the GDP.

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QAD

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The term CSV (computer software validation) invokes nightmares and lost sleep for management at medical device, pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers because it is such an arduous task and a huge cost to the business. CSA is a framework designed to help manufacturers achieve CSV. Let’s break it down. CSA will provide?clarity

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APRIL 2, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. One of the biggest time consuming and mundane activities in warehouse management is the pick up of inventory and the appropriate shelving of inventory. Imagine picking up inventory from the warehouse without having any paper lists or even any barcode scanners.

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6 River Systems

JULY 3, 2020

. “Identify your production and supply chain methods first…” For instance, if you’re following the Lean Production Method, it means that you don’t need to stock minor accessories because most of your inventory consists of the finished products. The loss of time and product loss both affect the bottom line.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 3, 2020

Somehow, though, even with two parents in the medical field, the Oil & Gas industry recruited me first, and I ended up becoming a field operations engineer working across onshore, offshore, and warzone logistics & chemical manufacturing operations. At least that’s how I see it.

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JANUARY 11, 2013

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. What is Green Supply Chain Management : Green Supply Chain Management is all about delivering products and services from suppliers, manufacturers to end customers through material flow, information flow and cash flow in the context of environment. Consumer Packaged Goods.

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AUGUST 29, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Today, manufacturing companies have adopted software in major part of their supply chain. The habit of constantly monitoring real time manufacturing process through iPad and take real time decisions can drastically lead to waste reduction and optimal inventory.

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Locus Robotics

JULY 8, 2022

Quite frequently, the classic industrial machines you see in an assembly line for a car manufacturer are mislabeled as robots. Inventory management. AMRs and Mobile Manipulators for Manufacturing. The versatility of AMRs makes them ideal for the ever-changing, dynamic world of manufacturing. AMRs in Biotech .

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Traditionally supply chain model for e-retailers has been to stock inventory at downstream i.e. Distribution Centers (DC). To have centralized inventory visibility. · No centralized inventory visibility. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare.

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DECEMBER 29, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. We further noted that the upcoming 2011 holiday buying season would once again drive home the premise that MCO and responsive supply chain inventory management are often the best complement to effective multi-channel and online commerce plans. Consumer Packaged Goods.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. By exchanging information such as inventory levels, forecasting data, and sales trends, companies can reduce cycle times, fulfill orders more quickly, cut out millions of dollars in excess inventory, and improve forecast accuracy and customer service. Healthcare.

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Precoro

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Cost Avoidance This KPI identifies the amount of money an organization will avoid spending thanks to current or ongoing measures such as proper tool maintenance, inventory management, and material tracking. Let's take a biotech company as an example. In addition, this type of analysis encourages better budget allocations.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

JANUARY 13, 2014

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Todays WMS is a tightly integrated code between the intrinsic WMS functions like receiving, put away, inventory, picking, packing and shipping, which are the primary functionalities. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure.

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Infosys Supply Chain Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Let us take an initiative such as Inventory Optimization as an example. Somewhere along the year-long journey of cataloging requirements and assessing gaps, inventory optimization takes a SKU rationalization flavor and the goal turns to the avoidance of SKU proliferation.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. The state of product demand planning and inventory management among retailers becoming more advanced. Overall,retailers performed a decent job in forecasting holiday demand,managing promotions and overall inventory in the 2010 season. Consumer Packaged Goods.

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MARCH 20, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. o Consolidate inventory for fulfillment i.e. use of a single pool of inventory to promise and fulfill orders across multiple ordering channels. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure. Logistics and Distribution. Public Sector.

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DECEMBER 29, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. During the release process, if sufficient inventory is not available, order used to get backordered. Depending on business policies, retailer may allow order placement only against on hand stock, on hand & future inventory or pre-ordering. Consumer Packaged Goods.

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DECEMBER 18, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. On the one hand, Wal-Mart was able to mitigate the availability of certain excess inventory through real-time promotions on Facebook. The realization that available inventory must be effectively optimized to meet order needs across multiple channels is hitting home for many.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. The implication was that orders came in huge surges, and supply chains that were not prepared, particularly those without robust inventory allocation or tight inventory visibility across their brick-and-mortar retail and online retail systems paid a price in customer loyalty.

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MARCH 27, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Inventory management will take on new dimensions for optimizing both physical store and online fulfillment requirements with multi-tier optimization an essential component. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure. Medical Devices.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. When customers asked for future delivery dates, retailers mulled over the use of future inventory to satisfy future demand. In retail, ATP is used alongside future incoming inventory into the warehouse to commit delivery date to the customer. Consumer Packaged Goods.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Each of the functional departments within company e.g. Sales & Marketing, Manufacturing, Finance would normally come up with their own forecast and there are high chances that some sort of biasness would creep in while generating different numbers. Financial Services.

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DECEMBER 31, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Thus, many retailers, both brick and mortar and online focused, had to dynamically link available inventory with in-store, online and channel related promotional initiatives. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure. Medical Devices.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Inventory and Capacity Visibility to Order Management System. As, there is no postcode change in this case, there is no change in inventory sourcing warehouse and delivery van route. Hence, address can be amended without re-checking inventory and capacity.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. While much of the retail industry and business media is focusing on retailers attempts to integrate online and in-store retailing, the real test in our view, lies with smarter inventory management and supply chain fulfillment capabilities among retailers. Financial Services.

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MAY 9, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. As a result, organizations end up either under stocked (that leads to lost customers) or overstocked (leading to unwanted inventory carrying costs). Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure. Logistics and Distribution. Medical Devices.

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APRIL 27, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Build spare parts list (bill of material) for each asset - This will help in identifying the actual problem in case of breakdowns and also in maintaining inventory levels. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure. Medical Devices.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Moreover, since the SMEs are experts in their areas of expertise only (eg: SMEs for inventory, purchasing, shipping, financials etc.), Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure. Logistics and Distribution. Media and Entertainment.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Demand planning is the most critical process in the CPG industry, since it drives all downstream processes (raw material/finished goods inventory planning, procurement planning, capacity planning, manpower planning, transportation planning, etc.) Consumer Packaged Goods.

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AUGUST 10, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. That in-turn raises the challenge of the ability to manage inventories across cross-channel commerce, along with the ability to position and deploy inventory to the most profitable channel and associated store outlets. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. They understand the benefits derived from a unified view of customer orders and inventory across different fulfillment types. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure. Logistics and Distribution. Media and Entertainment. Public Sector.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Typically these reasons lead to Excess Inventory, Low Asset Reliability, Non-Compliance to safety, Non-Compliance to standard maintenance procedures, reduced decision making capabilities and incorrect reporting. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare.

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JUNE 25, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. The theory helps in identifying the constraints and planning around it to exploit the constraint without piling up the excess inventory for the repair work. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure. Logistics and Distribution.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Able to send real time inventory updates to website. Able to monitor the inventory real time and should be able to replenish it in quick time to reduce lost sales due to out of stock products. how do you quantify the missed revenue due to short of inventory?

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JULY 17, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. Another advantage of Yard Management and WMS integration is the virtual extension of warehouse visibility to include yard inventory. With visibility into trailers and their contents, chances of unfilled orders due to idle inventory in the yard are reduced. Healthcare.

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MARCH 6, 2012

Industrial Manufacturing. Pharmaceutical and Biotech. In this context, the social media can be leveraged effectively to analyze customer data and achieve more insight on forecasting, planning, scheduling and inventory management. Consumer Packaged Goods. Financial Services. Healthcare. Hospitality and Leisure. Medical Devices.

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