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SCRC Partner Profile: A Textbook Transformation at Biogen-Idec

Supply Chain View from the Field

The company discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets biological products for treating conditions such as multiple sclerosis and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In addition to its portfolio of drug candidates, the company has capabilities, including capacity for protein manufacturing, that are world-class in quality and scale.

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[INFOGRAPHIC, REPORT, & INTERACTIVE MAP] The US Manufacturing Workforce & Making it In America

GlobalTranz

While US manufacturing has been hit hard by nearly two decades of policy failures that have damaged its international competitiveness, it remains a vital part of the U.S. The US manufacturing sector employed 12 million workers in 2013, or about 8.8 On average, non-college-educated workers in manufacturing made 10.9 employment.

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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. In 2009 we were $2B, and suddenly had five new drugs approved in two years. Build facilities.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

In addition to cutting the need for outsourced manufacturing, this move could give the company a leg up on the competition by making it possible to get products in the hands of consumers faster. Additionally, the company’s manufacturing expertise will enable the reduction of production costs.

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

deliver analytics that predict defects on the manufacturing line”) and the cloud-based software that IT deployed was poorly managed such that it became hardto decipher how all that cloud spend related to IT initiatives. He obtained his MBA from NC State’s Poole College of Management Jenkins MBA program in 2009 and his B.S.