Understand the Evolving Pharmaceutical Supply Chain - 2016 and beyond

• Globalisation, hyper competition, technology breakthroughs, outsourcing, off-shoring: Discover how these drivers of change are challenging your supply chain
• Understand what the likely impact will be on the pharmaceutical sector and your company’s bottom line
• Find out what response will be required from the supply chain executive to these new challenges
• Integrate with the healthcare system, engage in constructive dialogue and regain consumer confidence

Yury Rozenman, Head of Marketing, Pharmaceutical Sector, BT Global Services

Supply Chain Security and Resilience: The Need For Greater Security

• Learn to increase patient safety beyond the supply chain: reduce risk and enhance brand protection
• Assess parallel trade and the need for a greater security
• Identify the threat to patient safety when repackaging and relabelling life saving materials
• Unique numbering: a tool against counterfeit and diversion!?
• RFID versus Barcode: Learn the business benifits and short comings of both techniques

Hubert Koevoets, Managing Director, Amgen Europe

Parallel trade & Supply Chain Integrity in Europe

• Understand parallel trade and the associated commercial issues
• Learn how you should balance supply chain costs with operating revenues
• Manage the internal issues: how does supply chain management impact marketing, pricing, product launch etc?
• Analyse the growth of domestic delivery incentive schemes by the industry: can this reduce the existing threats to profits?
• Evaluate the power of EU regulation, Free Trade and the uphill battle to reduce cross border trading

Janice Haigh, European Price and Trade Director, Astellas Pharma Europe

How to Set Safety Stock Targets in the Pharmaceutical Business

• Learn how to set appropriate Safety Stock Targets to achieve the desired customer service level and efficient management of a company’s supply chain
• Discover how AstraZeneca has taken a published technique and combined it with a Process Behaviour Chart analysis to create an integral method of setting Safety Stock Targets.
• Use Process Behaviour Charts for Forecasting: Learn the dynamics of sales stability in the pharmaceutical business
• How to set safety stock targets: Discover the processes that have been developed to support this.

Graham Shaw, Information Management & Forecasting, AstraZeneca

Centralise Inventory Management Across Your Group Wide Supply Chains

• How to maximise inventory reduction through centralised strategies
• Understand the role of centrally used supply parameters and how they drive inventory decisions
• Discover how Advanced Planning Systems and enhanced demand planning capabilities impact inventory optimization
• Learn why a KPI based performance measurement system is a prerequisite to successfully manage inventories

Daniel Graf, Head of Global Supply Chain, Solvay

Optimise Supply Chain Operations With Your Group Wide IT Infrastructure

• Assess the role IT has in supporting a global supply chain network
• Evaluate the role IT and enterprise software have on supply chain operations
• Learn strategies to ensure your supply chain IT is functioning in harmony with overall business objectives
• Evaluate the current software available to assist supply chain operations and the impact this has on IT infrastructure

Nosh Lentin, VP Technology, UCB Pharma

Demand Planning into a Safe & Secure Supply Chain

• Gain insight into security, parallel trade and the technology and infrastructure needed to really evaluate if your supply chain is robust and secure
• Deal with Parallel Trade, RFID & Barcode Solutions to gain a leaner more agile supply chain network
• Patient safety beyond the supply chain: reduce risk and enhance brand protection while having patient safety as your Primary Goal

Robert Nientker, Business Development Director Life Sciences, Oracle

Examine the Practical Realities of Making Global Demand/Supply Management Work

• Explore emerging trends in the industry and their impact on demand and supply planning
• Discover critical elements of global planning models and what brings success or failure
• Increase control, visibility and traceability in your global healthcare supply chain from point of manufacture to patient
• Understand deferring needs between launch products and mature products

Bruce Horton, Partner, Accenture

Sales & Operations Planning - Local & Global Execution

• Discover the local sales & operations planning processes Novartis adopt
• Learn how this roles up to the global process and how this process influences decision making at Novartis
• Understand the key success factors in sales & operations planning and hear the myths dispelled

Phillip Till, Demand & Supply Chain Manager, Novartis

Enhance Your Forecasting Capabilities With an Evidence Based Approach

• Understand the significance of market statistics and the forecasting errors they can produce when incorrectly used
• Enhance your capabilities: Learn how to Identify market share with what you have available
• Hear about the drivers of change in the pharma industry to deliver more accurate forecasts

Mike Stephens, Director, Inpharmation

Discover how Organon Create Accurate Supply Chain Forecasting

Tony Van Bijleveld, General Manager, Organon

Merck-Serono Integration Lessons: Maintain Supply Chain Integrity Post-Merger

• Learn how to optimise stock levels, distribution costs and keep customers happy
• Discover how to maintain an optimal level of stock to efficiently react to new demands
• Reduce cycle times and the complexity of your distribution process for a better bottom line
• Examine key areas for cost reductions whilst maintaining supply chain integrity

Christian Borel, Head of Supply Chain Integration, Merck-Serono

Specialty Pharmacy’s Niche in the Supply Chain

• Define Specialty Pharmacy and the benefits to Patients, Payers, and Manufacturers
• Specialty Pharmacy as an integrated Supply Chain catalyst: how SP has blurred the lines between Pharmacy, Distribution, 3PL, and Manufacturer Support Programs
• Hear in-depth case studies in Specialty Pharmacy: Including a new biologic product launch and an established product re-launch

Kevin Cast, VP Pharma, CuraScript Pharmacy

A Cultural Transformation: Implement an Integrated Business Management Across the Supply Chain

• Hear experience of the cultural transformation that took Abbott from a disjointed, functionally focused business to an integrated, customer oriented business
• Learn how a Business Excellence implementation in 60+ sites worldwide, including commercial, manufacturing and planning/ logistics sites has boosted the bottom line
• The integrated business management model: Discover keys thoughts on change management and organisational readiness
• Understand the benefits: increased customer service, increased forecast accuracy, decreased inventory levels

Alejandro Portilla, Business Excellence Manager, Abbott

A Best-Practice Guide to Supply Chain Collaboration in the Pharma Industry

• Improve risk management through better management of critical products
• Move to more strategic relationships with key partners for an agile supply chain
• Deliver joint business process improvements with partners
• Standardise approaches and tools including software automation
• Focus on continuous improvement for the longer-term and yield sustainable benefits

Ian Brodie, Director, European Life Sciences, Archstone Consulting