Adapt or die. Charles Darwin said that the species that survive are the ones that most accurately perceive their environment and successfully adapt to it. It isn’t found only in nature. Billy Beane, as portrayed in the movie Moneyball, believed that the adapt-or-die philosophy can also be applied to winning baseball teams.
It’s no secret that businesses also need to adapt to the disruption coming at them from every direction.
Industry experts can guide companies as they adapt, seize new business opportunities and beat the competition.
Watch our on-demand, 4-part series on how to be an Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise with Bart Reitter, VP Life Sciences at QAD, Inc., and Greg Cathcart, CEO of Excellis Health Solutions. Each 30-minute episode will present a different strategy to help your business become more adaptive and more likely to thrive.
Part 1
Why ERP? Life science manufacturers need a resource, quality and supplier management solution for the journey from pre-approval to IPO
Pre-commercial life science manufacturers, including medical device manufacturers, biotech companies, and contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs), face infrastructure challenges as they work toward Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval. Even in the early stages, a life sciences company needs to operate efficiently and within cGMP regulations — to make purchases, pay bills and integrate outside manufacturing partners into their organization.
Find out what an ERP system is, and why adopting an ERP solution that is built for life sciences manufacturing can help you scale and grow your business early on and be the key to future success. Click below to watch a replay of this webinar.
Part 2
Integrated supplier management: Real-time visibility of supplier performance
As your life sciences business moves through the growing pains from pre-revenue to commercial status, supplier management becomes more challenging. At this point, your supplier partners may change and you will need to make sure all your partners, including CMOs, are aligned to support a smooth technical and management transfer. Then, you have other questions to consider such as a backup supply source, for both materials and packaging. All the while, you are starting to plan for demand and supplier requirements for the next generation of products.
Learn the benefits of adding an integrated supplier management solution to your operations as early as possible to prepare your business for fast growth and scale. Click below to watch a replay of this webinar.
Part 3
Effective Enterprise Management: Real-time analytics across the entire business
Is your business still communicating vital information via email and spreadsheets? Silos in a GMP environment can be risky. Effective enterprise management solutions can make your core processes more effective and efficient by making process and product information available in real time and allowing quick and more informed decisions.
Often considered just for traditional shared services like accounting, purchasing and financials, modern ERP systems can also tie in other processes that report to the COO or CFO. In addition, early-stage companies can benefit from low-cost, cloud-based infrastructure, which can spare a commercial company the cost of a large IT team.
Discover how leveraging new ERP technology can help create more effective and efficient core processes and introduce real-time analytics to your life science business. Click below to watch a replay of this webinar.
Part 4
Digital Manufacturing: Leveraging technology in life sciences
COVID-19 changed the types of therapies life sciences have in the pipeline. In addition, companies found it more difficult to get patients into studies, which slowed the development of new medicines. The manufacturing process itself became harder to monitor and operate as more employees worked from home and supply chains were disrupted.
Now that we’re into 2021, disruptions like this will likely continue. Traditional manufacturing processes are changing for the better as digital manufacturing technologies take hold and businesses have to be more agile. The life sciences community needs to contend with automating batch records, and must leverage software and automation to connect parts of the manufacturing process and replace manual operations.
In this episode, learn why leveraging digital manufacturing and integrated supply chain solutions can help life sciences manufacturers support the delivery of complex therapies like cell and gene therapy while maintaining operational efficiency and cGMP compliance. Click below to watch a replay of this webinar.
Join the many life sciences organizations that are leveraging this disruption as an opportunity to accelerate their adoption of new technologies, stay competitive and seize new business opportunities.
