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Digital supply chain optimisation as te basis for flexible, fast and sustainable procurement of pharmaceutical packaging
New forms of therapy and dosage, increasing individualisation – and enormous time pressure at te same time:complexity along te entire value chain is increasing together with te challenges in te pharmaceutical and healthcare industry.This also has a significant impact on te procurement of packaging.Nils Höpker, Head of Logistic and Demand Management Operations EU at packaging specialist Faller Packaging, explains in an interview how digital supply chain solutions can help to tackle this complexity and make processes faster, more cost-efficient and more sustainable.
Mr. Höpker, te pharmaceutical and healthcare industry has become one of te most important global growth markets in recent decades.Nevertheless, te industry is rather conservative when it comes to trends such as digitalisation and networking.Why is that?
In te past, te production of pharmaceuticals and te procurement of te relevant packaging were relatively easy to plan, because batch sizes were large, item variety was low, ordering cycles were regular, and lead times were sufficiently long. However, this has been changing for some time now, because te variety of products and variants is increasing rapidly due to more and more forms of therapy and dosage as well as te trend towards more individualisation. Population growth and demographic change are creating a growing demand for medications and healthcare products. At te same time, manufacturers must also bring their new developments to market much faster if they are to gain an advantage over te competition. All these factors are pushing te industry’s conventional processes and structures to their limits.
Te digitalisation of te supply chain holds huge potential for overcoming these challenges and making production and logistics processes faster, more efficient, more reliable and more sustainable. However, many managers in te pharmaceutical and healthcare industry are only now becoming aware of this. Often, people are unaware of te opportunities and possibilities of te digital supply chain, or they simply fail to fully grasp te scope of te topic. We’re talking here about considerable time and cost savings from which companies can benefit.
“Digital Supply Chain” – that sounds quite futuristic.How do you see this functioning in practice?
Digital supply chain means that all te elements of a supply chain – te flows of materials, products, people and information – are digitally networked, from raw materials to retail customers. In our case, this means that we work much more closely with pharmaceutical companies than before and optimally coordinate all our relevant processes. Te basic prerequisite for this is to capture, store, analyse and share all te relevant data that’s generated in te course of value creation. This results in processes being better understood and coordinated, information being used at an early stage, and conclusions being drawn for capacities and scheduling.
For example, we can use forecasts and historical order data to purchase materials early, prepare tools and plan our production accordingly. In turn, pharmaceutical manufacturers can evaluate batch records from their suppliers, for example, and improve te efficiency of their packaging systems with information on material properties. Te result: significant improvements along te entire process chain, enabling manufacturers to save time and costs in equal measure.
Faller Packaging has so far played te role of a supplier of pharmaceutical secondary packaging.How does your company support pharmaceutical manufacturers in digitalising their supply chains?
First of all, it’s important to identify a customer’s specific optimisation potential in advance. We do this as part of an in-depth supply chain analysis. We also offer modular supply chain consulting with different service modules. Data analyses and recommendations for action help customers to independently optimise their processes and generate savings. Training courses heighten awareness of how to manage te increasing complexity of today’s supply chains. Companies also receive a detailed action plan and specific savings calculations during on-site processing and data mapping. This creates a partnership-based collaboration with a high level of transparency that makes te procurement process significantly more efficient, cost-effective, dynamic and faster. We assume an operational costs savings potential of around 20%, depending on te application.
If you could see te future, how would te digital supply chain look in your ideal scenario?
In te future, pharmaceutical companies and packaging manufacturers will ideally be long-term partners who have created te foundation for a transparent, comprehensive and continuous data exchange through technical solutions. They can both share this information to capture, visualise and effectively manage te increasing complexity of te supply chain. This will largely be done automatically from a central platform and will integrate all te manufacturing sites involved – including those of third-party suppliers. Between order and delivery, a continuous, information-driven process has been created, one that permanently controls and optimises itself in real time – an intelligent, networked and digital supply chain.
We’re currently focusing a great deal on this topic and have already compiled extensive information about it on our website, where we have an explanatory film and a white paper, for instance. In this way, we offer a particularly good point of contact for companies that would like to take a closer look at te digitalisation of their supply chain.
At our virtual roadshow in June, this topic will also be an important item on our agenda. You can find out more about this event and te registration on our website
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