{"id":5361,"date":"2019-09-06T15:23:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/life-sciences\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T12:52:19","slug":"life-sciences","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/industries\/life-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Life sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Life sciences<\/h2>\n<p>Historically highly profitable, the life sciences industry is now undergoing accelerated change in a context of economic pressure, increasing regulatory requirements, price\/service competitivity on OTC products, deregulation and the rationalization of public health devices.<\/p>\n<h2>Challenges in the life sciences industry<\/h2>\n<p>Facing these evolutions, pharmaceutical laboratories must continually improve service to their customers through the development\/launch of new products or their improvement, and the development of service to the patient and the prescribers, taking advantage of digital capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Laboratories must also continue to look for scale effects to reduce increasing costs of R&amp;D through industrial or distribution synergies. Acquisitions must be integrated effectively, particularly concerning organizational structure, processes and IT.<\/p>\n<p>Life science companies need to be increasingly flexible while controlling costs; adapting the distribution strategy, improving demand steering and the collaboration model through controlling the balance between demand, inventory and industrial capacity, evolving the industrial model (decoupling points, delayed differentiation, campaign size), stock policy optimization, production cycle reduction and the management of change controls.<\/p>\n<h2>How we can help with life science challenges<\/h2>\n<p>We help life science companies transform, from operations assessment to the implementation of improvement initiatives throughout the supply chain.<\/p>\n    <div class=\"accordion\" id=\"accordion\" data-id=\"5361\" data-eval=\"true\" data-field=\"accordions\" >\n                        <div class=\"accordion__item\">\n                    <div class=\"accordion__trigger js-accordion-trigger\">\n                        <h4 class=\"accordion__title\">Operations strategy<\/h4>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__plus js-accordion-plus\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion__content js-accordion-target\">\n                        <ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">governance and supply chain and operations organization<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">make or buy and industrial footprint<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reduction of catalog complexity<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> carve out\/post-merger integration<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__item\">\n                    <div class=\"accordion__trigger js-accordion-trigger\">\n                        <h4 class=\"accordion__title\">Operations digitalization<\/h4>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__plus js-accordion-plus\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion__content js-accordion-target\">\n                        <ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">real-time traceability via IoT (flows, transportation, parallel markets, temperature monitoring etc.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> demand forecasting<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> manufacturing process control<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> predictive maintenance development<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> APS system deployment<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__item\">\n                    <div class=\"accordion__trigger js-accordion-trigger\">\n                        <h4 class=\"accordion__title\">Economic performance and cost control<\/h4>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__plus js-accordion-plus\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion__content js-accordion-target\">\n                        <ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(re)design to value<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> efficiency of purchases\/should-cost of packaging<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> industrial competitiveness<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> inventory reduction<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> SG&amp;A reduction<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> cost to serve and logistics routes optimization<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> governance and performance steering<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__item\">\n                    <div class=\"accordion__trigger js-accordion-trigger\">\n                        <h4 class=\"accordion__title\">Agility<\/h4>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__plus js-accordion-plus\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion__content js-accordion-target\">\n                        <ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NPI<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> planning chain synchronisation and execution: sell &gt; replenish &gt; produce &gt; order<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reactivity and industrial flexibility (MTO\/MTS, production campaign size, security distribution and demand signal stabilisation)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__item\">\n                    <div class=\"accordion__trigger js-accordion-trigger\">\n                        <h4 class=\"accordion__title\">Compliance<\/h4>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__plus js-accordion-plus\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion__content js-accordion-target\">\n                        <ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">change control<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">management<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> serialisation model choice and time to market control<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> release process<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> control of the master data<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__item\">\n                    <div class=\"accordion__trigger js-accordion-trigger\">\n                        <h4 class=\"accordion__title\">Collaboration<\/h4>\n                        <div class=\"accordion__plus js-accordion-plus\"><\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                    <div class=\"accordion__content js-accordion-target\">\n                        <ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">supply chain steering and APS deployment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> interaction with the CDMOs: supplier development<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> collaborative planning with manufacturers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> risk management of supply sources<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n    \n<h2>Our approach<\/h2>\n<p>We apply a combination of technical expertise, operational experience and business knowledge to help our clients solve life science issues and deliver lasting results. Our personal, and pragmatic approach, with challenge where needed, ensures buy-in at all levels of our clients\u2019 businesses and a successful outcome. We have worked with a wide range of organisations in the life sciences industry including Arysta, Pfizer, Merck, GSK, Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), Novartis, Roche, Sanofi, Servier and IPSEN. \u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.argonandco.com\/us\/about\/\">Learn more about us here.<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life sciences Historically highly profitable, the life sciences industry is now undergoing accelerated change in a context of economic pressure, increasing regulatory requirements, price\/service competitivity on OTC products, deregulation and the rationalization of public health devices. 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