Sometimes its just a quick remark that clarifies difficult issues and that happened with me yesterday when a very competent procurement professional mentioned that their company did not do much procurement activities i.e. bidding,negotiation because they preferred to stay with the same supplier. So, there was not much growth in procurement as a career… ThisContinue reading “How Relationship Marketing is Changing Procurement Management”
Category Archives: Biotech,Pharma & Medical
Mature Global design Strategies improve profits
I was rather happy to read the Aberdeen report’s summary which highlights that global product design and development leads to reduction in product development time and time to market while allowing the protection of intellectual property through Digital Rights Management. This blog and my research has been investigating these issues for some time and IContinue reading “Mature Global design Strategies improve profits”
From supply chain to “global value chain” a report from NECON 2007
I returned from NECON 2007 and was struck by a major change in the supply profession from 2006. In three words "global value chain," in contrast to the narrower "savings" theme of the previous year. While in 2006 there was some talk about managing the global supply organization and global suppliers – this time IContinue reading “From supply chain to “global value chain” a report from NECON 2007″
So what is the big deal with “Sterling Service Contracts” ?
Well for one, the new Sterling Service Contracts , gets linked to many of the categories that I blog about! And that is a lot of categories… Some of the things that Sterling Service Contracts will do includes, and I quote from Sterling’s press release: START QUOTE: Storefront capabilities that provide customers and partners withContinue reading “So what is the big deal with “Sterling Service Contracts” ?”
Collaborative Product Definition Management (cPDm)
After a very nice Easter weekend, I found myself stuck like an old record on my April 1,post about how SFA happens outside the company and does not depend on existing customer data or processes, particularly when you are looking for new customers. Applications that can be quickly deployed,used and benefits seen make obvious senseContinue reading “Collaborative Product Definition Management (cPDm)”
What’s next for the US Small and Medium Manufacturer ?
The GNHCC Business Expo 2007 turned out to be a huge rallying of small and medium companies in the New Haven region. Tireless efforts of the organizers and various supporting organizations,associations and well wishers of New Haven businesses made the event a great success. As I wrote earlier – I was on the CAPM panelContinue reading “What’s next for the US Small and Medium Manufacturer ?”
Alliances,mergers and supply chains
2007 has got off to a great start – the weather in the North East US is unseasonably warm and people are not complaining although there is underlying concern about "global" warming. It’s interesting that we have started looking at weather with a "global" perspective. Switching gears, I just finished a research paper on globalContinue reading “Alliances,mergers and supply chains”
Prescription drugs for 4$ a month?
From the moment I learnt that Walmart will be selling a month’s supply of prescription drugs for $4 – I was intrigued. Apparently Walmart is starting this with 300 generic drugs out of its Tampa, Florida stores and no you cannot mail order. Yes, you can order by telephone and get your friendly retired UncleContinue reading “Prescription drugs for 4$ a month?”
Europe going strong in Biotech R&D and Pharma research
A recent report suggests that contracted biotech and pharma research is the largest chunk of subcontract work in Europe and is growing at a (spectacular by Europe standards) rate of 5%. Intriguingly this piece suggests that low costs in Asia are less attractive to companies in this sector than doing new product research in theirContinue reading “Europe going strong in Biotech R&D and Pharma research”
Medical Outsourcing
Had been hearing about this since last year and now the Time magazine article has done an excellent piece on medical outsourcing. Consider this from the article that at current rates US would be spending $1 out of every $5 of GDP on health care by 2015. Yet, 1 out of 4 Americans would beContinue reading “Medical Outsourcing”