SupplyScape Strategic Consulting

Achieving breakthrough performance requires a unique combination of innovative thinking, deep domain knowledge, and dedication to excellence. Our Strategy Consulting practice works closely with senior executives to deliver measurable performance improvement within their businesses and across their supply chains by building actionable business strategies and operational plans. We achieve these results by maintaining a laser focus on the unique challenges faced by companies in the global pharmaceutical supply chain as they seek sustainable business growth, supply chain optimization, and increased business flexibility.

Supply Chain Business Challenges in Life Sciences

The global pharmaceutical supply chain is not one single entity but a complex web of businesses and relationships. Creating measurable impact, and determining potential roadblocks to realized value, requires digging below the surface. This is particularly true in complex initiatives such as global serialization programs and trading partner collaboration initiatives that may involve hundreds or thousands of partners worldwide.

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies face significant challenges in running a global business, including managing multi-national manufacturing and distribution operations, initiating global serialization programs across entire product lines, coordinating trading partner relationships that may number in the thousands and cross multiple borders, aligning product supply with market demand, and protecting patient safety from product security threats while ensuring secure regulatory compliance across the business.

Wholesale distributors and supply chain service providers seek to ensure profit margins in the midst of required new technology adoption by improving operational efficiency and reducing inventory stock levels wherever possible. New track and trace technologies offer new customer service opportunities – if designed correctly. Being in the middle of a network of diverse trading partners also pressures operations and IT groups who strive to manage the business complexity of the varied technologies and business processes introduced by serialization. 

Pharmacy retailers, hospitals, and clinics are seeking approaches to increase product availability for improved customer satisfaction while reducing costs, maintaining pharmacist productivity, ensuring regulatory compliance even with thin technology infrastructure, and improving the velocity and accuracy in receiving and shipping.

A key focus of the Strategy Consulting team is to break down barriers and create insight both across supply chain relationships and across intra-organizational boundaries. For the past several years, our consultants have been building cross-functional opportunity among sales and operations planning groups, supply chain and distribution teams, IT organizations, procurement functions, and other key business areas. New initiatives such as global serialization programs can create maximum value only if the business visibility and knowledge generated by these programs is mobilized across the organization. We can help!

Strategy Consulting Offerings for Measurable Impact

SupplyScape’s Strategic Consulting services are designed to help companies maximize business opportunity and reduce compliance risk as they begin to leverage an integrated, collaborative trading partner network built on global serialization, serialized product pedigree, EPCIS connectivity, and other interoperability initiatives. Our service portfolio runs the gamut from strategy development to detailed planning and implementation support.

• Strategy engagements that help businesses optimize their operations and uncover value creation opportunities.
• Product portfolio risk analysis
• Global serialization and serialized product pedigree strategy
• Business process alignment and re-engineering
• Supply chain collaboration strategy
• Business opportunity analysis and business case development
• Detailed Planning services that define and build actionable blueprints for key business strategies.
• Business requirements and process planning
• Serialization architecture and management programs
• Serialization vendor selection
• Detailed project planning and blueprint design
• Implementation Support services that span overall program management and solutions implementation with vendors.
• Global serialization program oversight and management
• Project advisory support

Unique Capabilities Forged from Theory and Practice

• Technology Expertise
  Our strategic consultants possess deep hands-on expertise in track and trace technologies, encompassing serialization, electronic pedigrees, authentication, and Auto-ID elements such as RFID and bar codes. The team marries this practical experience with extensive theoretical knowledge culled from some of the leading technological institutions such as the MIT Auto-ID Laboratory.
  
  
• Operations Knowledge
  The SupplyScape Consulting Team contains noted leaders who have designed and managed some of the largest and complicated global supply chains in industries ranging from the life sciences to consumer products and electronics. Our consultants leverage broad field experience in operational areas such as mass serialization, serialized product pedigree, business process optimization, and collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR).
  
  
• Focus on Business Results
  The experts at SupplyScape combine strategic knowledge of what's possible with practical understanding of how to get it done. Our approach starts with your business strategy to ensure the project achieves your company's financial and operational performance goals resulting from initiatives focused on patient safety, product security, chain of custody control and supply chain visibility. It proceeds to provide a complete strategic framework and methodology resulting in a prioritized roadmap for addressing the complex issues of process design and optimization, architecture and design, and finally deployment and integration with validated systems.

Using our proven approach, we focus on targeted engagements that deliver measurable time-to-value. We can assess your existing supply chain and your business needs, documenting where your opportunities lie and what you need to do to achieve them. Should you seek support throughout the rest of the project lifecycle, our Implementation and Operations service teams stand ready to help with implementation, go-live testing, and ongoing operational support. 

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