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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. I work in biotech, where much of what we do can fail! Joydeep Ganguly was one of my students during his MBA at NC State. These are all critical to one’s journey.” “The

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What is Supply Chain Management? Importance & Benefits

QAD

Working proficiently relies on moving parts, but the bottom line is simple: meeting customer demand. QAD’s Industrial ERP meets these challenges to exceed expectations. Function: operation management, logistics and inventory. Cohesion is required across supply chain management to create maximum value.

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How 2011 Prepared Us for Today

ivalua

Agriculture, financial services, biotech/pharmaceuticals and telecommunications also accounted for a large portion of Japan’s GDP. . Downstream customers, such as the big 3 automakers in the US, who relied on Japanese suppliers had to find alternate channels to meet their production requirements.

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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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Lights out: China’s energy woes hamper supply chains

Resilinc

To meet the surging demand, including early holiday purchases, China’s exports to the U.S. Its firms are critical suppliers for pharma/biotech, consumer electronics, automotive, energy, apparel and many other industries; they draw on a huge skilled workforce and have access to unmatched logistics infrastructure. year-on-year in August.

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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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Poole Graduate Joydeep Ganguly believes in a “Goodness Chain” at Gilead Science

NC State SCRC

I wanted to find a way to contribute to the healthcare industry, and biotech was an obvious choice. . “I pursued engi­neering because of the encouragement from my father-he was insistent that someone in our family not be a doctor. It allowed me to work in a meaningful space that leveraged my love of engineering and mathematics.”

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