Lean For Pharmaceutical and Biotechnologies

With increasing pressure from lower cost economies, fast evolving technologies which enable drug replication and a global competitive market, the financial returns from drug releases are being challenged. Pharmaceutical manufacturers need to shorten the typical fifteen year plus product discovery and time to market process.

Applying our Lean practices to pharmaceutical and biotechnologies

Applying Lean principles to Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology organisations enables processes to be controlled and managed in a more streamlined and efficient manner. Allowing for stronger project management and improved business performance, this in turn will offer competitive advantage and increased profits.

By transferring our extensive knowledge into your organisation, KM&T can enable the following:

• Reduction in waste
• Optimisation of process improvement
• Improved Rapid Change Over (SMED)
• Faster "Route to Market"
• Reduced errors at product launch
• Quicker product to market development cycles

Lean pharmaceutical and biotechnology deliverables

Pharmaceutical companies are starting to use dedicated SME's to deliver key sections of the discovery to distribution process, hoping to quicken the overall process from development to sales. Lean methodologies implemented by KM&T can deliver:

• Improved communication
• Reduced lead time to achieve 'go / no-go' decisions
• Improved overall business improvement
• Reduce complexities in project management
• Supply chain management
• Global logistics