Pharmaceutical companies face enormous challenges inherent to a complex business environment. Increasing competition, rising raw material prices, customer service demands and mounting workloads contribute urgency to establishing lean, flexible enterprises. Pharmaceutical supply chains are highly complex with multiple stages of manufacturing that often require the coordination of independent companies or product lines involving the participation of dozens or hundreds of people.

In this environment, small problems can quickly become large obstacles to reliable performance. Timely, high quality operating

data and analytical tools are necessary to overcome these challenges and improve operations.

Manufacturers carry large working capital burdens to support the long make span between raw material purchases and finished product shipments to channel partners and consumers. Streamlined production practices can reduce working capital requirements, inefficiency and waste.

Incremental improvements in supply chain operations can unlock tremendous corporate value. Companies that employ industry best practices in their supply chains gain significant competitive advantages in terms of margins, capital employed and time to market.

Our solution balances the various facets of complex operations to help life science organizations streamline supply chains. Our solution leverages existing IT investments and provides an integrated platform to:

Reduce Operating Costs
Improve Customer Service
Reduce Manufacturing Lead Times
Reduce Inventories
Improve Collaboration & Information Sharing
Improve Flexibility to React to Market Fluctuations

20% reduction in inventories
Improvement in customer service rate – lead time simulation in less than 1 hour
One month reduction in the new product introduction cycle
Reliability of production commitments communicated to all subsidiaries

50% time savings on schedule creation
Constraint based scheduling
Extension of planning horizon to 2 weeks
Increased visibility to global supply chain operations

90% increase in customer service
Schedule visibility and coordination across 100 people
Solution integrated into BPCS planning process
Full control over finite capacity production resources

Gain global visibility across your extended supply chain

Visibility into supply chain operations ensures balanced production, prevents excess inventory, minimizes validity expiration risk, and costly order expediting. Accurate supply chain computer models predict demand and inventory levels, warn of delays, and support scenario planning to address critical events; the insight needed to support effective decision making.

Reduce time to market

Faster to market means higher revenue and larger market share. Advanced planning systems support better product launch planning and scheduling of critical resources including bottleneck resources and QC Labs.

Improve collaboration

Accurate demand forecasts and dependable schedules are achieved through close ties with trading partners, suppliers and customers. True collaboration within your own organization—sales, marketing, procurement, production, QA/QC, distribution—provides the best foundation for effective decision-making. Further collaboration with contract manufacturers allows for more efficient use of resources and can provide enhanced visibility to the overall flow of materials. Our solution supports improved collaboration among all parties to provide critical information to supply chain stakeholders.

Reduce cash-to-cash cycle times

Inefficient scheduling of manufacturing resources can waste significant capacity and time. Advanced planning solutions help maintain optimal production schedules and leverage assets to near-capacity levels which reduce overall cash-to-cash cycle times by as much as 50%.

Integrate systems across your extended supply chain

Many pharmaceutical supply chains operate as a collection of companies and departments—each with its own planning and tracking system operating as separate silos of information. In this common scenario, it’s difficult to generate a true picture of the supply chain performance. Our solution leverages certified integration technology to connect ERP, MES, and LIMS systems together with supply chain planning to provide a comprehensive assessment of your manufacturing environment.

Leverage flexible planning and scheduling

Scheduling around the heavy and often unpredictable workloads of QA/QC labs while trying to balance production against fluctuating demand is extremely challenging. Trying to tweak spreadsheets to keep up with changing markets makes this challenge even more difficult. Our solution supports process and constraint modeling to minimize changeovers, maximize use of production assets, regenerate optimal schedules in the face of unplanned events and maintain cost-effective production plans.

The WAM Systems Solution for Pharmaceuticals

Our solution provides pharmaceutical companies with an enterprise-wide suite of tools that offers many features and benefits, including:

Full Compliance with Government Regulations
through extended documentation and reporting
Reduced Time and Cost for Bringing Products to Market
through extended visibility which helps you optimize the manufacturing process and reduce the cost of goods sold through optimized production
Visibility Over the Global Supply Chains
including visibility to key performance indicators (KPIs), real-time inventory projections for multiple SKUs and updated impact analysis of collaborative forecasting
Increased Customer Service Levels
through real-time analysis tools for Available-to-Promise (ATP) / Capable-to-Promise (CTP) data reporting as well as comprehensive metrics for demand history
Automated Functionality to Optimize Supply Chain Operation
including maintaining optimal inventory levels and support for time-phased safety-stocks

Pharmaceutical Industry Benchmarking

WAM Systems conducts an ongoing series of benchmarking surveys for companies throughout the process manufacturing industry in an effort to assess the overall maturity of supply chain practices. The purpose of these surveys is to help each company compare its supply chain process maturity with that of its industry peers.

Each survey is composed of a telephone interview and final report--loaded with demographic and benchmarking data--and is kept confidential to the participating company. Companies find this analysis useful when there is a desire to confirm

what they perceive to be an industry gap within their current planning processes.

Pharmaceutical Industry Best-Practices
Process and Management Consulting

The WAM-ID Process™ is a concise yet thorough analysis of a company's existing supply chain operation which is designed to help key executives evaluate the potential for process and technology improvement in a format that can build enterprise-wide consensus.

Supporting the WAM solution is an unparalleled industry supply chain consulting service, whose leading offering is a multi-faceted analysis and benchmarking study called the WAM-ID Process™.

By using this process, WAM has helped numerous companies discover real value, that can be quantified and achieved through a tangible roadmap of process improvement and supporting technology implementation.

Learn more about the WAM-ID Process™ and how it can quickly and easily be launched inside your company to address the concerns and potential of your supply chain planning organization.

Deployed in a suite of interconnected modules that incorporate WAM's industry-leading supply chain methodology, the WAM solution allows supply chain executives to manage every aspect of their planning operation, including:

Collaborative Demand Management and Forecasting
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
Inventory Targeting and Optimization
Distribution Planning and Scheduling
Production Planning & Scheduling
Supply Chain Management and Optimization
Optimal Policy Setting
Raw Materials Planning
Available-to-Promise (ATP) / Capable-to-Promise (CTP) Order Fulfillment Analysis