Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Summit 2012

While the global pharma market is expanding, with more shipments into emerging economies, the market in developed countries is moving rapidly toward specialty pharmaceuticals, requiring more customized distribution processes. And within the specialty pharma sector, the prevalence of cold-chain processes is significant. These dynamics will both create opportunities and obstacles to markets and business development. This presentation will review the macro trends, then focus on the dynamics of national and global temperature-sensitive shipping, based on the just-published 2012 edition of the Pharmaceutical Commerce Biopharma Cold Chain Sourcebook.

• Commitment to the Healthcare Industry
• Global Market Forces
• Cold Chain Logistics at a Glance
• Innovative Technologies

• Discuss how improvements in product, supply, and material management coordination can be achieved by use of bar codes. 
• Discover ways of using barcodes for Unit-of-use items for inventory control/tracking
• Learn techniques for using barcodes for tracking of reusable/refurbished equipment and supplies, product recalls, and warnings throughout the entire chain
• Implement test labels to ensure labeling accuracy
• Identify best Practices for using Bar codes on high-usage drugs so systems can easily and quickly address the most prominent threats to patient safety

• Discover how all three of these basic components of the global supply chain mechanically interact during storage and distribution
• Learn to improve supply chain efficiency, implement a fundamental shift from the current component by component design to a true systems based design methodology
• Analyze new, user friendly, design technologies have been developed which model these interactions and when used by trained packaging and logistics professionals, significant improvements in supply chain operating efficiencies are possible.

• SenseAware powered by FedEx provides near real-time information, exposure to light, relative humidity, and barometric pressure throughout the shipment journey
• Permitted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
• Customizable alerts can be set and will provide a notification if a package exceeds their preset limits
• All of this information can be shared continuously with invited participants through a feature-rich web-based platform
  

• Identify the current commercial and clinical outsourced production environment in Life Sciences Business
• Determine the operational and information challenges created as production is outsourced
• Apply the collaborative business network architecture required to ensure visibility, accountability and control across external supply relationships
• Outline the responsibilities of the CMO and CPO in the pharmaceutical contract manufacturing relationship

• Linking Maintenance to achieving Operational Excellence
• Reducing cycle time and conversion costs
• Improve visibility to packaging at every point in the supply chain
• Converting Maintenance from a Cost Center to a Competitive Advantage
• minimize loss and optimize supply chain efficiency
• Six Sigma Process for developing an Asset Management Master Plan

John Rocco, Executive Vice President, The Mundy Companies
Michael Greenholtz, Vice President Reliability Solutions, Genesis Solutions
Mike Mills, Senior Manager, Mundy Companies

• Attend 2 half hour long workshops and join other industry leaders as they host in-depth discussions on a variety of topics
• After 30 minutes, attendees will be given the opportunity to switch rooms and hear from a different industry leader on a while new topic
• Remember to sign up for your workshop early to ensure your seat!!! Each workshop will be hosted in a separate room

START-UPS AND SHUT-DOWNS – AN INTEGRATED SERVICES APPROACH TO SAVING MONEY AND MAXIMIZING PRODUCTION DAYS

• Planned stoppage in production for:
• Routine maintenance
• Construction or facility modifications
• Major installations
• Validation testing
• Other tasks
• Extensive planned engineering followed by a short period of rapid execution
• Startup of manufacturing afterwards

Mike Mills, Senior Manager, Mundy Companies
Joe Rettinger, VP, Soliance

Health Care Logistics in Alaska: Collaboration between rural communities and industry, a Rx that works.

• Alaska is home to 229 federally recognized tribes and 130,000 Alaska natives, about 85,000 of whom live in rural villages reachable only by boat, plane, snow machine or dog sled. 
• Since 1970, Alaska Natives have increasingly assumed more responsibility for managing their own health care through the Alaska Tribal Health System (ATHS) and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC)
• The combined efforts of industry, the ATHS and ANTHC have helped tackle health care logistics challenges to ensure the safe and timely delivery of crucial supplies, samples and materials to remote village locations

• Hear a comprehensive overview of the International inbound screening plans
• Create a certified plan to meet the 100% screening mandate in the supply chain
• Learn strategies for design and development in accordance with these regulations

• Analyze the benefits of Sea travel for your supply chain
• Discuss the expansion of the Panama Canal to allow larger vessel transport
• Examine the increased security and temperature control in sea travel

• Learn what's driving "smart" transformation in the Supply Chain
• Develop performace improvement intiatives to drive profitable growth
• Hear how different industries are performing based on benchmarking and current research
• Understand how supply chain performance impacts financial performace
• Take away a game plan to launch your journey to supply chain excellence

• A discussion of four megatrends in the industry and their impacts on supply chain planning and operationsfrom two professionals deep in the industry
• Topics discussed with include; ships in transit modes, the emergence of air movements, the challenges in roadway distribution, new inventory consequences of physically longer supply chains, point of application distribution leading to higher inventory storage, and electronic innovations in the past six years that are changing the cost of distribution.

• Industry focus is shifting from protecting the product to protecting the patient
• More therapies are being applied by the patient and a quickly growing geriatric population- packaging needs to keep up with these developments
• Learn how Michigan State's simulated 'hospital' is allowing students to look critically at how packaging issued, (and misused), in real-world settings, and what the industry has learned from their tests

• Prepare for the new ways drugs are being handled and administered in pharmacies
• Learn to navigate the difference in regulatory standards when moving from Distribution to Neighborhood
• Pharmacy territory, and develop systems compliant with both
• Implement Strategies for incorporating Pharmacies and Patients into Your Supply Chain
• Determine how distribution should handle working with pharmacy chains networks
  

• New package delivery systems increase package integrity challenges. New technologies are required to determine package integrity of complex delivery systems.
• Container closure integrity is growing in importance with respect to package distribution. Deploying more accurate, reliable, and quantitative methods for determining package integrity increase control of product released for distribution.