Supply Chain
Management

Companies are critically assessing their supply chains and seeking to balance rising operating expenses with unprecedented pressures on the top line. A “patent cliff” can claim tens of billions of revenue dollars, and new therapies in the pipeline will not fill that gap. Today’s challenges extend beyond managing supply chain costs to issues of security and integrity. In order to comply with increasing regulatory scrutiny, Life Science companies need to develop and maintain a comprehensive system for monitoring raw materials, manufacturing quality and finished goods distribution.  At the same time, they need to understand that the supply chains built to support North America and Europe will not support the emerging markets.  Companies need to rethink how they approach these markets to safely and effectively provide products to these markets while addressing the individual government regulations.

Clarkston’s deep regulatory expertise combined with robust operations and supply chain management practices allow us to guide organizations across the entire distribution landscape by ensuring products move safely through their extended supply chains. We help our clients select and manage partner networks – outsourcing where risk is manageable and value is optimized – as well as improve planning and execution process performance.

Clarkston Consulting can help you address these key issues:

• Strategy and Alignment
• Network and Asset Optimization
• Process Design, Integration & Improvement
• Outsourcing
• Supplier Collaboration
• Risk Management
• Serialization & Traceability