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What is Supply Chain Management? Importance & Benefits

QAD

This component includes conception, design, materials, manufacturing, quality testing, and packaging. This process allows organizations to guarantee availability, reduce quality issues, deliver products more rapidly, and handle returns with ease. Making – Technology is critical to production.

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Supply Chain Leadership Series IV: Joydeep Ganguly – Passionate About Sustainable Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

I had the opportunity to have him talk to my MBA class recently, and we covered a variety of topics – from career development to the biotech industry. Ganguly looks back and attributes his success to three primary qualities he has learned from his experience over his 20 years. I work in biotech, where much of what we do can fail!

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SCRC Partner Profile: A Textbook Transformation at Biogen-Idec

Supply Chain View from the Field

It isn’t easy to drive change in biotech companies for a number of reasons. With their external spend increasing so fast, there is great pressure on biotech companies to rethink how their sourcing structures are set up to add most value. is showing how this can happen in the biotech sector. Biogen Idec Inc.

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Adapting to Manufacturing Disruption: A Strategic Life Sciences Webinar Series

QAD

Life science manufacturers need a r esource, quality and supplier management solution for the journey from pre-approval to IPO. Each 30-minute episode will present a different strategy to help your business become more adaptive and more likely to thrive.

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Biogen Idec designs the innovation supply chain

Supply Chain View from the Field

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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11th annual Cold Chain Distribution Conference and Exhibition

Supply Chain Movement

Stephen Mitchell, Quality & Compliance Manager, Global Logistics, GlaxoSmithKline. Robert Potts, Director International Quality, Vertex International Ltd. Gino Vleugels, Senior Manager EMEA Temperature Control, Johnson & Johnson. Yoram Eshel, Senior Director, Global Transportation and Logistics, Teva Pharmaceutical.

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Understanding FDA’s New Approach to Computer Software Validation

QAD

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. Case for Quality program manager at the U.S. Does this software impact product quality? . CSA will provide?clarity