Industry Track – Manufacturing and Life Sciences

Organisations must make accurate, fact-based decisions on time, every time in order to implement strategic planning and stay on top of changing market dynamics. To stay competitive, manufacturing organisations must constantly seek out and strive to improve sourcing, production quality, delivery and support of goods and services. Meanwhile life science organisations are juggling pricing pressures, pipeline pressures, patent expirations and the soaring cost of developing new drugs so they can continue to deliver the best drugs to the public.

In this track, you will hear how leading manufacturing and life sciences organisations are using business intelligence and analytics to optimise supply and service chains, improve quality, forecast resource utilisation, increase customer satisfaction, drive efficiencies throughout every stage of a drug's life cycle – from discovery through development, commercialisation and beyond – and gain an edge over their competition.

Learning objectives

• Gain best practices in advanced planning systems, forecasting and optimisation.
• Understand why the convergence of demand planning and operations research is important to optimising the scheduling of goods, services and human resources.
• Analyse operational data to manage risk and maximise profits.
• Gain insight into how to convert intellectual property from discoveries into effective drug treatments.
• Understand how to get better products to market faster by more effectively assessing the safety and efficacy of research compounds and by facilitating collaboration across trials, phases and therapeutic areas.
• Deliver unique customer insights that organisations can use to execute more efficient marketing, sales and service strategies.
• Understand how specific, well-respected companies have gained tangible results by focusing on analytics and advanced planning techniques.

Presenting organizations include:

• CV Vooruit
• Ferring Pharmaceuticals A/S
• Takeda
• The Dow Chemical Company
• SAS

Sessions

Balancing Service and Costs: Using Analytics to Optimise Inventory in a Pharmaceutical Distribution Network
Speaker: André Devos, CEO, CV Vooruit

CV Vooruit manages the challenge of improving availability for more than 8,000 products – each with different demand patterns – while significantly reducing the inventory costs.

 

Knowledge Sharing in Global Development
Speaker: Silvana Cappi, MSc, MBA, Executive Director, Global Biometrics, Ferring Pharmaceuticals A/S

Developing a new drug is an arduous process that lasts many years. In order to minimise time to market, scientists and management need fast access to information in order to make timely decisions. This presentation will focus on the different needs of the various stakeholders and how effective knowledge and information sharing can improve drug development.

 

How Well-Designed IT Solutions Enhance Business Productivity
Speaker: Margaret Jones, Director of European Biometrics and Data Management, Takeda

Takeda has implemented an innovative SAS^® infrastructure to enable global work and broaden the scope and value of biometrics support to the organisation. In this presentation, Takeda will highlight the business drivers for change and analyse the business benefits it has realised.

 

How Dow Chemical Retains and Satisfies Customers
Speaker: Timothy D. Rey, Counselor, Statistics, Data Mining and Modeling Group, The Dow Chemical Company

Customer satisfaction and loyalty are inextricably tied to profitability. Finding key drivers for predicting loyalty and profitability is an important step in developing marketing strategies that lead to high-quality, long-term relationships. This session will focus on Dow's success in using advanced analytics to uncover key insights into customer intentions, behaviour and satisfaction.

 

Service Intelligence for Manufacturers
Speaker: Tonny Dierckx, Director, Global Manufacturing Practice, SAS

Manufacturers are shifting their focus to the aftermarket in the drive to increase revenues and grow profits. Using customer case studies, this presentation will discuss how serving customers appropriately is strategically important to maintaining customer satisfaction and reducing costs.