Effective Cold Chain Management Focus Day

08.00 Registration and Morning Coffee Registration and Morning Coffee

09.00 Chair’s Opening Remarks Paul Lim, President & Founder, Supply Chain Asia Chair’s Opening Remarks Paul Lim President & Founder, Supply Chain Asia Paul has worked for more than 12 years with both international and regional logistics companies. He has held senior management positions with companies such as YCH Group and EGL Eagle Global Logistics (Asia Pacific). Paul's career in Logistics started in 1995 when he joined YCH as a Corporate Development Manager. Rising within the ranks, he became a Special Assistant to the CEO within 6 months and [read more]

09.10 Case study: Benchmark leading practices - Creating good cold chain monitoring practices in Asia Viliam Kovac, VP Global Supply Chain Quality, Roche Diagnostics Pharma manufacturers should try to benchmark your cold chain monitoring against leading practices in developed countries. Through a comparison, companies can identify their own performance gaps and develop new solutions. Monitoring your cold chain is an essential part of providing effective services to patients within your practice, as many of these temperature sensitive drugs can become less effective or even destroyed if they are frozen or allowed to get too hot. In this session we bring Viliam to share his case study on: How often do you monitor your local supply chain? How do you monitor your supply chain from your warehouse to your country of destination? How and what should you be monitoring? What devices are available and how you can deploy them for such monitoring? How do you monitor the order cycle times? What are the KPIs that the pharma industry set that can be adopted? Viliam Kovac VP Global Supply Chain Quality, Roche Diagnostics Viliam is Vice President Global Quality & Divisional Export Control to Roche Diagnostics in Mannheim, holding two University Degrees in Economics (International Trade & Business Management). Competent and experienced Manager in Business & Quality & Regulatory subjects within the International Supply Chain Operations, including Materia [read more]

09.50 Case study: Cold chain management of finished products - Effectively minimise losses due to temperature excursion Marco A Vega, Head of Quality, Eli Lilly China Cold chain transportation is complex due to the massive temperature differences across China. In this presentation Marco will share his years of experiences discussing the following issues: Communicating the importance of strict temperature controls to ensure quality and safety of products Assessing differences in cold chain requirements (packaging, transportation and storage) for -20; 2-8; 10-15 and controlled room temperature (CRT) Exploring the efficient cold chain system to balance the demands of quality assurance and costs Lilly’s case study in coping with cold chain challenge Marco A Vega Head of Quality, Eli Lilly China Marco has a broad experience in pharmaceutical industry with more that 20 years of experience. Marco has worked in different manufacturing and packaging sites with different technologies including dry products, liquids, small volume aseptic parenteral, and primary and secondary packaging.Marco has as well participated in projects for new areas and facilities, as technical transfers among other exp [read more]

10.30 Morning Networking Break Morning Networking Break

11.00 Examining how cold chain distribution differs across different climates in Asia to increase performance without compromising product integrity Viliam Kovac, VP Global Supply Chain Quality, Roche Diagnostics Shivraj Dasari, Vice President, Quality Management and Regulatory Affairs, Inno Bio Ventures Paul Lim, President & Founder, Supply Chain Asia Rodney Wee, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Cold Chain Centre Implementing a cold chain strategy for different climate zones can have many challenges. For example, with temperatures reaching up to 50°C in the summer in India and a lack of temperature controlled holding and storage facilities available, maintaining temperature at 2-8°C and 15-25°C is one of the biggest challenges in India. This session brings together experts to discuss the various factors which you help to address such challenges. Identifying the type of logistics you will need to transport your cold chain products from a hot to a cold destination and vice versa Examining the type of packaging you will need Determining what kind of technology do you need to assist in your packaging in order to maintain the integrity of your cold chain product without compromising the quality Examining how do you distribute frozen products like cell therapies which needs frozen storage within Asia or even exporting out of Asia Viliam Kovac VP Global Supply Chain Quality, Roche Diagnostics Viliam is Vice President Global Quality & Divisional Export Control to Roche Diagnostics in Mannheim, holding two University Degrees in Economics (International Trade & Business Management). Competent and experienced Manager in Business & Quality & Regulatory subjects within the International Supply Chain Operations, including Materia [read more] Shivraj Dasari Vice President, Quality Management and Regulatory Affairs, Inno Bio Ventures Dr. Shivraj Dasari is Vice President – Quality Management & Regulatory Affairs, at InnoBio Ventures Sdn.Bhd, Malaysia. He is currently responsible for developing and implementing Quality Management systems meeting USFDA, EMEA, and Malaysian FDA (NPCB) standards. Dr.Shivraj joined InnoBio Ventures, after an experience of working in Biopharma & Stem Cell therapies, in [read more] Paul Lim President & Founder, Supply Chain Asia Paul has worked for more than 12 years with both international and regional logistics companies. He has held senior management positions with companies such as YCH Group and EGL Eagle Global Logistics (Asia Pacific). Paul's career in Logistics started in 1995 when he joined YCH as a Corporate Development Manager. Rising within the ranks, he became a Special Assistant to the CEO within 6 months and [read more] Rodney Wee Chief Executive Officer, Asia Cold Chain Centre Dr. Rodney Wee PhD. CEO, Asia Cold Chain Centre (ACCC). The Centre is linked with tertiary Institutions and research organizations to provide expertise in Cold Chain Management, Value Supply Chain practices as well as specializing in areas of Post-Harvest Operations, Technologies and practices. He has spoken, chaired and facilitated seminars, conferences for APEC, the South Australian Freight Coun [read more]

11.40 Best practices for designing end-to-end cold chain solutions Ni Sheng Jie, Regional Industry Director, Healthcare, TNT Express Asia Pacific No session description available. Ni Sheng Jie Regional Industry Director, Healthcare, TNT Express Asia Pacific Mr Ni Sheng Jie started the current role of Regional Industry Director for Healthcare in Apr 2011. He is responsible to develop healthcare supply chain practice in TNT Asia Pacific Region. As a key member of TNT’s Global Account Management team for Healthcare, Mr Ni will lead TNT’s initiatives to support a portfolio of healthcare customers in the Asia Pacific Region. Mr Ni has more than 10 years e [read more]

12.20 Networking Lunch Networking Lunch

13.30 Dealing with tough regulations, high standards and utmost quality of your cold chain Shivraj Dasari, Vice President, Quality Management and Regulatory Affairs, Inno Bio Ventures In a pharma environment where drug policies, regulations and standards are continuously changing to meet new healthcare quality requirements, advanced knowledge on regulatory affairs is paramount to ensuring the market growth of your company. In this session, Shivraj will discuss: Identifying what businesses need to do to comply to new changes in regulations Overcoming the challenges in quality assessment of your cold chain products Maximising sustainability efforts while cutting costs Knowing your product that you are going to ship; Maximising use of physical information, stability data and other parameters in the design of your protocol Shivraj Dasari Vice President, Quality Management and Regulatory Affairs, Inno Bio Ventures Dr. Shivraj Dasari is Vice President – Quality Management & Regulatory Affairs, at InnoBio Ventures Sdn.Bhd, Malaysia. He is currently responsible for developing and implementing Quality Management systems meeting USFDA, EMEA, and Malaysian FDA (NPCB) standards. Dr.Shivraj joined InnoBio Ventures, after an experience of working in Biopharma & Stem Cell therapies, in [read more]

14.10 Examining the issues and implementing solutions to maintain temperature controlled distribution in multiple environments of a large continent like Australia Rodney Wee, Chief Executive Officer, Asia Cold Chain Centre Examining the potential threat for the temperature controlled distribution Identifying the challenge for the cold chain supply in terms of product quality assurance, cost management and efficiency Analysing the various infrastructure challenges Rodney Wee Chief Executive Officer, Asia Cold Chain Centre Dr. Rodney Wee PhD. CEO, Asia Cold Chain Centre (ACCC). The Centre is linked with tertiary Institutions and research organizations to provide expertise in Cold Chain Management, Value Supply Chain practices as well as specializing in areas of Post-Harvest Operations, Technologies and practices. He has spoken, chaired and facilitated seminars, conferences for APEC, the South Australian Freight Coun [read more]

14.50 Managing your air freight cold chain integrity in Asia Jack Lo, Cargo Product & Marketing Manager, Cathay Pacific Cargo While time and temperature sensitive biopharma demand for air cargo will grow dramatically in the coming years, the supply of global capacity of air cargo carriers, commercial airlines and ground networks have been reconfigured and constrained. In this session, Jack will discuss: Updates on IATA regulations Strategies on how to access capacity for cold chain supply in Asia Case study - Evaluate methods for shortening your supply chain to reduce risk and cost Building quality into your temperature controlled distribution out of Asia Jack Lo Cargo Product & Marketing Manager, Cathay Pacific Cargo As Cargo Product & Marketing Manager, Jack Lo is responsible for the development and marketing of products for Cathay Pacific Cargo. His responsibilities include product design and development, quality assurance management and research into customer needs. Mr Lo was responsible for the development and implementation of the airline’s Pharma Lift product – a specialised service cater [read more]

15.30 Chair’s closing remarks Chair’s closing remarks

15.40 Afternoon Break Afternoon Break

16.10 End of focus day End of focus day