Sponsors - meet the thought-leaders supporting Europe's most exciting pharmaceutical procurement conference

Barclaycard Commercial

Barclaycard Commercial is at the forefront of developments in the commercial card industry, with a proud 40 year track record of innovation. As a leading provider of Visa Commercial Cards in Europe we have brought to market a significant number of payment innovations, and in recent years, moved away from the concept of plastic cards towards payment solutions that fully integrate into the end-to-end value chain.

We have adopted a Fresh Thinking approach to business-to-business payments, extending our solution set to cover both new categories of spend and addressing the specific requirements of new segments within our customers’ overall expenditure.

Our portfolio of solutions includes plastic purchasing cards as well as embedded and virtual cards, rendering many manual invoice settlements, credit checks and other time consuming processes redundant, reducing your administration costs.

Our solutions are supported by our online platforms, Online Services and our new system -Barclaycard Spend Management - which offers card administration, expense workflow management and sophisticated reporting in over 15 languages.

Beeline

Founded in 1999 and part of Adecco Group since January 2010, Beeline is a recognized global leader in Vendor Management Software (VMS). Size, international capabilities, in country expertise, long term vision within the staffing industry, company stability, technology and functional expertise have put Beeline on top in a field of growing importance. Beeline offers a streamlined and optimized way for organizations to manage their flexible labor including temporary staffing, outsourced personnel, consulting, freelance and project-based workforce (SoW and Time & Materials). Beeline’s software as a service solutions are focused on reducing total cost of ownership, enforcing procurement policies, reducing compliance risk, optimizing sourcing and operational management processes and improving the quality & efficiency. Beeline’s solutions include: Vendor Management Software, Services Procurement Software and SmartView® Analytics and Business Intelligence. For additional information on Beeline, visit www.beeline.com.

DDB Health Group

DDB Health Group brings everything “DDB” to the world’s leading pharmaceutical and health companies. More than 40 DDB offices around the world offer a healthcare practice providing communications for all aspects of the specialist world of health and pharmaceuticals – from medical education to TV commercials.

We believe that in this new era of pharmaceutical marketing, we need to change the way we produce hcp communications. Today our hcp communications need to sell directly without the support of a sales rep and at the same time add value to the brand, above and beyond the innovation of the molecule. This means we need to produce hcp communications that are technical-medical based, insight driven, digitally infused and media neutral.

To achieve this effectively our unique approach is to structure our healthcare practices so that they combine deep healthcare expertise with world-class consumer and digital communications skills.

Havas Worldwide Health

Introducing Havas Worldwide Health, the the umbrella company for the Euro RSCG Life and Health4Brands networks. Our key point of difference is that All of our network agencies operate under a single financial reporting structure. One agency. One P&L. This ensures non-competitive global partnership sharing resources and thinking that are totally client-centric.

We are structured as one unified agency, and provide comprehensive services across the healthcare communications spectrum. Our model goes well beyond traditional agency attempts at integrated structure and fosters thinking that is brand-centric and channel-neutral.

Our singular management structure across all healthcare markets and disciplines allows all of our agencies across the globe to work collaboratively, always with the client and brand’s best interest driving our actions. This unique collaboration structure ensures that we can support global brands across categories and markets throughout a product's lifecycle.

We understand that consumers, both physicians and patients, want information in different ways, which is why our unique business model of unification, delivers synchronised efforts with one, unified voice of the brand.

Piramal Pharma Solutions

Piramal Pharma Solutions is the contract development and manufacturing (CDMO) division of Piramal Healthcare and is one of the only CDMOs providing support throughout the entire pharmaceutical drug product lifecycle.

Working with companies from top 20 pharma to small virtual pharma, Pharma Solutions supply product and services to all major pharmaceutical markets through our globally integrated network of sites across North America, Europe and Aisa. This structure enables us to offer solutions across the drug lifecycle – from drug discovery services, the manufacturing and packaging Phase I – III clinical trials materials through to commercial volumes for API and formulated solid dosage drug product.

We have built a reputation for offering an excellent manufacturing capability and extremely efficient operating systems that deliver outstanding quality. Combined with our uncompromisingly professional attitude and uniquely flexible approach to meet deadlines, Pharma Solutions endeavours to provide the solution to your out sourcing requirement.

The SmartCube

A leading global research firm selected as the #1 Knowledge Process Outsourcing Firm globally, based on customer satisfaction, in The Black Book of Outsourcing's prestigious 2011 Survey Rankings. We specialize in providing customized Corporate, Procurement and Supply Chain Research and Analytics to global corporations, management consulting firms and specialist procurement service providers. Covering the entire Sourcing and Category Management spectrum from sustainability and risk analytics to cost modelling and forecasting, we deliver high value insightful research at a fraction of the local equivalent cost. Our global coverage spans from The Americas and Europe to Low Cost Countries; China, India and Eastern Europe. The Smart Cube was named in Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine’s 2011 Annual Pros to Know in the Supply Chain Industry as well as an SDCE Top 100 Vendor. Headquartered in London, with offices in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Uruguay, Timisoara and New Delhi.

ZS Associates

At ZS Associates, we transform the art of demand generation into a science.

For almost 30 years, we have focused exclusively on helping companies around the world get the most out of their marketing and sales organizations by using data, analytics and deep expertise to make smarter decisions faster and more cost effectively. From our 20 offices around the world, our experts deliver marketing and sales consulting, outsourcing, technology and software solutions that help our clients grow. 

ZS has experience across a broad range of industries, with a deep and long-standing focus on the unique needs and challenges of the pharmaceutical industry. (www.zsassociates.com)

Starcite, part of the Active Network

StarCite provides a technology platform that makes meetings and event planning, booking and management easier and more cost-effective for corporations, hotels, venues and meetings suppliers worldwide. StarCite delivers visibility, cost savings and control over meetings spending for businesses. Through Web-based, on-demand technology, StarCite automates and supports every key element of the meetings planning and procurement process: planning, budgeting, buying, attendance, payment, and results measurement. Using StarCite’s proprietary online marketplace, meeting buyers can connect and conduct business with thousands of hotels, venues, destinations and suppliers globally. StarCite is part of the Active Network | Business Solutions division. The Active Nework is the leading provider of organization-based cloud computing applications—serving the business events, community activities, outdoors and sports markets— with over 47,000 global business customers and 70 million annual transactions reported last year.

Deloitte

Deloitte provides audit, tax, consulting, and corporate finance services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries. With a globally connected network of member firms in more than 150 countries, Deloitte brings world-class capabilities and deep local expertise to help clients succeed wherever they operate. Deloitte's approximately 182,000 professionals are committed to becoming the standard of excellence. In Switzerland, Deloitte has more than 1,000 professionals operating out of six cities: Basel, Bern, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano and Zurich (headquarters). We are committed to being the leading professional services firm in Switzerland and already have one of the largest management consulting businesses in the country. Over the past 5 years, we have doubled our revenues, amounting to CHF300m in FY 2011.

Overview of Sourcing and Procurement Practice
Deloitte is one of the largest supply chain consulting firms in the world and was recently ranked as the #1 Supply Chain Management Consultancy based on revenue by the Kennedy Consulting Research & Advisory group. Our Sourcing and Procurement practice has completed engagements with over 300 clients worldwide. We have strategic sourcing experience in over 250 spend categories, having renegotiated over $15bn in spend. The Sourcing and Procurement practice covers the entire range of services, from strategic sourcing, target operating model design, P2P process/systems diagnostic, and SRM program design and development. We combine deep operational expertise while maintaining a strategic perspective, allowing us to deliver unparalleled results across a broad range of client industries.

GEP

GEP is a leading procurement services firm dedicated to helping enterprises add value and reduce costs through procurement and supply chain transformation. With a comprehensive portfolio of services and solutions, GEP helps many of the world's largest organizations uncover savings opportunities, and deliver these savings to the bottom line. GEP has extensive experience in supporting purchasing and supply chain initiatives across major operating areas in pharmaceutical, healthcare products, medical devices and technologies and hospital systems organizations.

Our blended model combines management consulting, strategic sourcing support, implementation and outsourcing services with a full suite of best-in-class procurement tools and technology solutions.

Our global footprint helps us to deliver these services wherever our clients need them. Headquartered in New Jersey, USA, we have offices in London (UK), Prague (Czech Republic), Mumbai & Hyderabad (India), Shanghai (China), São Paulo (Brazil) and Willoughby (Australia).

For more information, visit www.gep.com

Founded in 2000, Science Warehouse has dedicated over a decade to delivering procurement innovation in the life sciences sector. Our solutions combine high quality structured data with user-friendly web technology to help leading R&D organisations accelerate spend management success.

Our catalogue and transaction engine seamlessly integrates with any e-procurement or finance system allowing customers to deliver greater intelligence, control, efficiencies and cost reduction whatever their stage in the P2P journey.

Delivered on demand, our solutions include e-Requisitions (automated order workflow), e-Catalogue (managed catalogue service) e-RFQs, e-Reports (real-time spend analytics), e-Integration (into back-end ERP systems), e-Invoices, e-Configurator (product configuration engine) and e-Stores (inventory management).

Our 3-fold focus on usability, high quality data and continuous innovation ensures our customers stay at the forefront of spend management to deliver year on year savings.

Talk to us today to about how we can help leverage you e-procurement environment and accelerate sustainable P2P success.

Website: www.sci-ware.com