Pharma 2020 - Maintaining competitiveness and operational advantage in a rapidly changing environment
GLOBAL WEBINAR SERIES
Sponsored By : ModusLink Global Solutions
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Part 2: High product value, short product shelf-life: Solving the Biopharma-supply chain conundrum through enhanced flexibility, visibility and responsiveness
When: Wednesday September 15th 2010
11:00 (New York), 16:00 (London), 17:00 (Paris)
Where: Online, live webinar
Reducing waste in Biopharma operations is a key initiative for many supply chain leaders across the industry. High product values, highly regulated operations, limited product shelf-lives, and increasing focus on network effectiveness, make this a skilful balancing act to get right.
What are the methodologies and systems that are enabling some of the most advanced Biopharma supply chains to adapt and respond to changing customer demands, reduce inventory and improve financial performance whilst cutting waste and maintaining high service levels?
This session will examine all of these issues, and give participants a framework of processes, tools and examples to help drive significant improvements within your global operation.
Speaker: Chris Roth
Director Corporate Planning, Amgen
Chris Roth has worked at Amgen in Master Data Management, ERP implementation projects, and Supply Chain Management for the past 5 years. He manages the corporate production planning team for mature commercial products.
Prior to Amgen he has 10 years of experience in the semiconductor test equipment industry where he was a Master Scheduler and Business Analyst at Teradyne, Inc. While there he used Rapid Response planning solutions to help integrate external contract manufacturing with internal operations. He holds a B.S. in Production and Operations Management from Cal Poly, SLO as well as an MBA from Pepperdine University.
Speaker: Elisabeth Kaszas
Director Supply Chain, Corporate Planning, Amgen
Elisabeth Kaszas has worked at Amgen Sales & Marketing, Operations, and Supply Chain Management for the past 15 years. She has experience with both the clinical and commercial supply chain functions of biopharmaceuticals. She recently led the global implementation of RapidResponse for production planning and inventory control across Amgen's regional and corporate supply chain divisions.
Prior to joining Amgen, Elisabeth managed new product introductions to the European market at Baxter International Inc. and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Inc. She holds an M.S. in Biotechnology from ENSAIA, as well as an MBA in International Management from ESSEC, France.
Moderated by Nari Viswanathan
VP Supply Chain Research, Aberdeen Group
Nari Viswanathan is Vice President and Principal Analyst for the Aberdeen Group's Supply Chain Management Practice. Nari Viswanathan heads up the supply chain planning practice and counsels enterprises on their supply chain planning strategies in areas such as sales and operations planning, demand management, inventory management, network design, and customer/ supplier collaboration with specific emphasis on financial performance. Nari also covers the Software as a Service, B2B collaboration and process integration coverage areas. Nari is part of the SCM research team, and possesses a very strong understanding of adjacent supply chain areas like TMS, WMS and Distributed Order Management.
Nari's current role includes creating a research agenda for the SCP practice for a rolling period of 18 months, vetting and finalizing the research calendar, supporting advisory clients, developing benchmark reports, developing an enterprise advisory council and advising on vendor go to market strategies. A special focus for Nari is Industry Vertical research. Key vertical industries managed within the practice include Discrete (Automotive, Industrial Equipment, Aerospace and Defense), Process (Chemicals/Pharmaceuticals, Metals, Oil, Gas), Consumer Industries (Apparel, Footwear, Consumer Packaged Goods, Consumer Durables, Retail, Distribution), High-tech sector (Computer Equipment and Peripherals, Semiconductors).
Nari is a well recognized industry expert with extensive experience across product management/marketing, consulting, solution design/development and presales. Nari recently gained industry recognition as a Pro to Know by Supply Demand Chain Executive Magazine. Nari has also published extensively in magazines like SCMR, GLSCS, Supply Demand Chain Executive, Internet Retailer, Industry Week etc.
Previous to joining Aberdeen Group, Nari was a senior product manager at i2 Technologies. Past experience includes a multi-year change management and IT enablement initiative at a large automotive manufacturer in Asia and process re-engineering of a large North American distribution network. Nari's business process and technology expertise includes demand management, manufacturing management, and demand fulfillment.
Nari holds a masters degree in manufacturing engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Nari also holds a mechanical engineering degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Presenter: Trevor Miles
Director Industry Applications Marketing, Kinaxis.
Trevor Miles is director of industry and applications marketing at Kinaxis and is responsible for identifying market trends and translating these into high level functional requirements for the company, and opportunities for value capture by Kinaxis customers and prospects.
Prior to joining Kinaxis, Trevor worked for i2 Technologies where he worked with global industry leaders such as Continental, Volkswagen, Nokia, and Thomson. Previous to i2, Trevor worked for Coopers & Lybrand performing several studies in supply chain reengineering for companies such a Levi's, Burmah Oil, TNT Logistics, AGA Gas, and Schneider Electric amongst others.
