28 - 30 March, 2011
Geneva
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28th April 2010: Main Conference Day One

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE


8:00 Registration and Morning Coffee

8:45 Chairperson's Opening Address
Michael Stein, Partner, Lodestone Management Consultants
Chairperson's welcoming remarks
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Michael Stein
Partner, Lodestone Management Consultants

Michael has more than 16 years of business consulting expertise. He is advising global clients on business transformation and systems integration assignments. His has worked across industries with a focus on life science. He has successfully managed large scale business transformation programs and is being recognized as independent and trusted advisor by his clients.
9:00 KEYNOTE: Ensuring A Successful Product Launch By Optimising Your Supply Chain
Laurent Boer, VP Global Supply Chain , UCB Pharma
UCB has launched 5 new cold chain products onto the US and Western European markets in 2009. Explore hot off the press case studies and identify key best practices you can apply to your new product launch. In his presentation, Laurent will cover:
  • Planning for product launch from introduction to commercialization using lean tools
  • Setting up supply chain operations in new markets by balancing long term profit with overall implementation cost
  • Ensuring compliance for the handling of new products by considering regional regulatory challenges
  • Integrating product launches into your established product portfolio to optimize supply chain operations
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Laurent Boer
VP Global Supply Chain , UCB Pharma

Laurent Boer is Vice President Global Supply Chain at UCB Pharma since 2007. In this role he is responsible for all Production Supply Management, Demand Chain management and Clinical Supply Chain. This includes all new product launches, product transportation and logistics. Previously he was Director Global Operations at Biogen Idec in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There he was specifically responsibl [read more]
9:30 Integrating Cost-Effective Outsourcing Of Logistics And Manufacturing Services To Minimise Costs And Improve Profit Margins
Hillel West, Executive Director, Supply Chain Strategy, Teva
As the pharmaceutical supply chain industry focuses on cost-saving initiatives, they look to outsourcing for logistics services to contract manufacturing. In this presentation, join Hillel to examine:
  • Identifying key selection criteria to ensure your solution provider has your best interest
  • Collaborating with internal and external customers to overcome forecasting and supply chain hurdles
  • Analyzing how decentralization and local accountability can be your key to success in an environment of uncertainty
  • Integrating your supply chain service providers to develop a flexible global network and process infrastructure in a regulated environment
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Hillel West
Executive Director, Supply Chain Strategy, Teva

10:00 CASE STUDY: Managing An Agile And Cost-Effective Supply Chain With Evolving Biologics Processes
Christele Hadjadj, Dir, Supply Chain, Bristol Myers Squibb
Does your supply chain continuously implement timely process improvements without extensive and costly supply segregation? Follow Bristol-Myers Squibb by:
  • Taking advantage of your first internally-discovered large molecule to create an agile biologics supply chain with cost-effective processes
  • Contrasting pharmaceutical and biologics supply chains to identify key aspects of a succesful biologics supply chain
  • Ensuring supply chain agility while minimizing process costs
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Christele Hadjadj
Dir, Supply Chain, Bristol Myers Squibb

With over thirteen years of increasing leadership functions in global supply chain management for small and large (both mammalian and microbial) molecules and in global strategic sourcing, Christele brings a diversified background of cross-functional accomplishments throughout the globe. She has worked in Germany, England, France, Canada, the United States and now in Italy, where she is responsibl [read more]
10:30 Mid-Morning Coffee & Networking
Mid-Morning Coffee & Networking in the Solutions Zone
11:00 CASE STUDY: Utilizing Lean To Cut Waste in Operations and SCM at AstraZeneca
Andy Evans, Global APO Business Lead, AstraZeneca
As most of the PhamaCo’s we started our Lean journey at AstraZeneca with the local Lean Manufacturing initiatives, but now we focus on the global LEAN SCM
  • Implementing Lean SC planning based on Rhythm Wheels (RW) and pure consumption trigger mechanism to achieve new asset management targets
  • Optimizing our inventory management by focusing on the E2E inventory replenishment levels
  • Ensuring successful planning and excution without using forecast information in execution
  • Integrating key metrics to measure progress
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Andy Evans
Global APO Business Lead, AstraZeneca

Worked in AZ for 22 years (through ICI, Zeneca and then AstraZeneca) joining originally as a Chemical Engineer and have worked across all parts of the supply chain. In my early career I held a variety of Engineering and Production Management roles which included working in France More recent roles have including Global Supply Chain Manager, Engineering Manager for an API site undergoing major expa [read more]
11:30 Utilising LEAN E2E Supply Chain Planning To Improve The Pharmaceutical Value Chain
Lean manufacturing and lean visions are truly not new in PharmaCo’s, but linking the local site results and leveraging the next level of lean by the E2E LEAN SCM view is new in the industry and first tackled by some industry leaders
  • Identifying key elements and objectives of lean planning & scheduling to reduce complexity in operations and SCM
  • Applying the lean production wheels and synchronising multi-echelon value chains – “pre-conditioning” assets an the supply chain
  • Integrating working principal of pure consumption pull signals and keeping out forecast information in production
  • Analysing benefits of lean planning paradigm in pharmaceutical operations and supply chains
  • Evaluating and simulating the lean impacts on your E2E supply chain
12:00 Why Outsource Your Distribution Centre? A Best Practice Case Study
Laurent Verney, Managing Director, Alloga Europe
Dominique Thisse, Head of Operations, Pfizer
  • Developing a successful business case for enhancing your distribution network
  • The project: implementing a new collaborative infrastructure to drive down costs
  • The “dos and don’ts”: what does it make outsourcing a success?
  • Lessons learned: mitigating the risks to optimise supply chain performance

Laurent Verney
Managing Director, Alloga Europe

Dominique Thisse
Head of Operations, Pfizer

12:30 KEYNOTE PANEL: Utilising Supply Chain Metrics To Improve Forecasting Accuracy
Laurent Boer, VP Global Supply Chain , UCB Pharma
Philippe Francois, Vice President Supply Chain EMEA, Baxter Schweiz AG
Daniel Graf, Global Head of Supply Chain, Solvay
Ann Merchant, Vice President Supply Chain, Amgen Europe BV
Effective forecasting is becoming increasingly more difficult with increased market volatility. In this panel discussion, join top supply chain leaders from a diverse set of backgrounds managing diverse product portfolios in ensuring all of your burning questions are addressed including:
  • Collaborating with sales, marketing, and production to improve forecasting accuracy
  • Building agility into demand planning to support changes in product portfolio and reduce response time to changes in a volatile environment
  • Attaining cross-functional buy-in for supply chain objectives to ensure an integrated approach to forecasting
Panelists will open for Q&A with the audience to answer your questions
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Laurent Boer
VP Global Supply Chain , UCB Pharma

Laurent Boer is Vice President Global Supply Chain at UCB Pharma since 2007. In this role he is responsible for all Production Supply Management, Demand Chain management and Clinical Supply Chain. This includes all new product launches, product transportation and logistics. Previously he was Director Global Operations at Biogen Idec in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There he was specifically responsibl [read more]
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Philippe Francois
Vice President Supply Chain EMEA, Baxter Schweiz AG

Philippe Francois is currently the Supply Chain vice president for Baxter healthcare for the Europe Middle East and Africa region He holds a master degree in engineering and an MBA and started his career in the automotive industry in France where he acquired a solid experience in Just in time techniques. He joined the healthcare industry where he has been working for the last 15 years and acquire [read more]
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Daniel Graf
Global Head of Supply Chain, Solvay

Daniel Graf is head of Global Supply Chain at Solvay Pharmaceuticals. His main task is to integrate the organizational units along the supply chain to fullfil the customer demands, to improve competition (efficacy) and to efficiently use the resources and to optimize the processes involved in transforming raw materials into finished products and move them from suppliers to customers. He leads Solv [read more]
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Ann Merchant
Vice President Supply Chain, Amgen Europe BV

Ann Merchant received her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in 1987 from the School of Languages and Linguistics. She received her Masters in Business Administration from Henley Management College in 1993. Ann began her career at Pfizer in Munich, Germany as Assistant Controller.She joined Amgen in 1994. Firstly she worked at Amgen GmbH as a Finance Manager. In 2000, Ann transferred to [read more]
13:00 Networking Lunch
Networking Lunch in the Solutions Zone
14:00 Peer-to-Peer Roundtable Discussions
Dirk De Naeyer, Senior Supply Chain Director, Janssen Pharmaceutical NV
Michael Grogan, Global Trade and Logistics Vice President, Actavis
James Hood, Senior Vice President Global Supply Chain, Mylan
Abhishek Khadria, Dr. Reddy's
Inal Kose, Fdf Warehouse Specialist / Responsible Manager, Sandoz
Lino Pascale, Logistic Manager, Roche Italy
Els Pasmooij, Senior Project Manager Commercialization , Amgen
Dieter Reuter, Senior Vice President, European Supply Chain Management, Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH
Roundtable Discussions:A great way to network with your industry peers in an intimate discussion around key challenges facing the industry today. In this one hour session, you will be able to attend 2 thirty-minute roundtable discussion so choose your topics carefully
  • Cutting Out Waste in the Supply Chain
  • Temperature-Sensitive Distribution
  • Supply Chain Security
  • Forecasting And Demand Planning
  • Improving Supply Chain Agility
  • Integrating your Production, Sales and Supply Chain
  • Reducing Worksing Capital While Optimising the Business Model
  • Outsourcing in Russia and Ukraine
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Dirk De Naeyer
Senior Supply Chain Director, Janssen Pharmaceutical NV

Dirk De Naeyer is currently responsible for the supply chain of Johnson&Johnson chemical API production in Belgium, holding operational responsibility of several supply chain and logistics departments, and connecting with the Global Planning of the Global Pharmaceutical Supply Group (GPSG). He previously was responsible for strategic planning for chemical API manufacturing in Johnson&Johns [read more]
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Michael Grogan
Global Trade and Logistics Vice President, Actavis

Current:I joined Actavis in 2006 as Logistics Manager CEE & Asia, became Director Global Logistics & Distribution later in 2006 and I am now VP Logistics & Contract Supply. My current responsibilities are Supply Management from CMOs, Group Trading Structure, Freight, Warehousing, and Distribution.History:I previously held a variety of Supply Chain and Operations positions with, IVAX Ph [read more]
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James Hood
Senior Vice President Global Supply Chain, Mylan

As Head Global Supply Chain Management, Jim is responsible for all SCM activities within the manufacturing sites, the supply hubs, as well as Transport, Warehousing and Distribution to our third party customers. At Mylan, Jim is leading the globalization, and integration of the old supply chain set-up, into a highly performing organization that focuses on delivering high quality, affordable generi [read more]
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Abhishek Khadria
, Dr. Reddy's

I am currently working as Manager, supply chain for Russia  & CIS countries and working on setting up the replenishment to consumption system in Russia-CIS to enable pull based distribution & production. I am responsible for delivery & sales planning, inventory management & logistics for Russia-CIS. A graduate in economics from Delhi University, I joined Dr. Reddy's after completin [read more]
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Inal Kose
Fdf Warehouse Specialist / Responsible Manager, Sandoz

Inal Kose received his Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy from Istanbul Marmara University in 2005. After the graduation, in his military service he worked as Responsible Pharmacist in Turkish Air Forces. From 2006 until mid 2007, he worked for Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine Hospital as Responsible Pharmacist where he worked in the area of hospital and clinical pharmacy. Since 2007, h [read more]
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Lino Pascale
Logistic Manager, Roche Italy

Els Pasmooij
Senior Project Manager Commercialization , Amgen

Dieter Reuter
Senior Vice President, European Supply Chain Management, Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH


16:10 Afternoon Coffee in The Solutions Zone
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17:40 CASE STUDY: Integrating A Pull Based Replenishment Model to Reduce Working Capital And Improve Customer Service
Daniel Graf, Global Head of Supply Chain, Solvay

Unpredictable demand coupled with lack of transparency along the supply chain augments the bull whip effect, which destabilises suppliers and influences the service level and financial value of the supply chain. In this presentation, Daniel will be:

  • Identifying key requirements to smoothen the demand along the supply chain
  • Analysing how the right business model can positively impact supply chain’s performance
  • Outlining organisational measures needed to support the business model
  • Examining processes and tools needed to optimise business model success
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Daniel Graf
Global Head of Supply Chain, Solvay

Daniel Graf is head of Global Supply Chain at Solvay Pharmaceuticals. His main task is to integrate the organizational units along the supply chain to fullfil the customer demands, to improve competition (efficacy) and to efficiently use the resources and to optimize the processes involved in transforming raw materials into finished products and move them from suppliers to customers. He leads Solv [read more]
18:10 LogiPharma Drinks Reception

19:10 End of Day One
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