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n.SKEP for
Pharmaceutical Industries

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European leader in Supply Chain Planning solutions, DynaSys provides the pharmaceutical industries with collaborative planning solutions meant to optimize the global supply chain.

During the past years, the pharmaceutical context has undergone considerable changes and has been marked by an evolution of markets as well as numerous mergers and acquisitions. To remain competitive and profitable, pharmaceutical industries need to generate additional benefits which require the control and the reduction of their distribution lead times and logistic costs (production, distribution, storage...).

The DynaSys n.SKEP ® solutions are integrated, flexible and to be customized. They will allow you to optimize your Supply Chain and to control its complexity in the best way.

The issues of the pharmaceutical sector

The pharmaceutical industry is strongly challenged, regulated and undergoing perpetual changes. Because of the huge growth on the OTC (Over the Counter) market coupled with a highly promotional sales activity, the removal of reimbursement for ethical medicine and the introduction of generic drugs, it is

more and more difficult to generate sales forecasts. In addition to this context, there is an increasing pressure upon distribution margins. The logistic network becomes even more complex, with a large scale distribution (often worldwide), which generally results in too high storage and transportation costs. The consolidation of sales forecasts and the stock controlling become critical for the pharmaceutical industry. It is necessary to find the best compromises between productivity, inventories, transportation costs, while controlling its service level.

n.SKEP, the remedy for your Supply Chain

The n.SKEP ® solutions by DynaSys are integrated, flexible and to be customized. They will enable you to better control the complexity of your Supply Chain:

Getting more accurate demand forecast at different levels (distributors, countries, continents, ...)
Taking into account external factors for the calculation of sales forecasts (legislative, epidemiologic, ...)
Managing promotional activities on the OTC
Planning and optimizing distribution (avoiding stocks destruction, management of the expiry dates by customer, quarantine period)
Managing production resources at finite capacity (labour force, production and conditioning line, ...)
Planning by synchronizing the different bill of material levels and the lead times
Anticipating the launches of new products and the network of resources necessary to requirement changes

Benefits:

Strategic results

Improvement of the customer service level
Anticipation of production and procurement requirements
Improvement of the production and distribution network efficiency
Improvement of visibility and communication
Increase of market shares

Financial results

Global cost reduction (stocks, procurement, distribution, ...)
Turnover increase thanks to the decrease in stock-outs, obsolescence, ...
Margin increase thanks to the reduction and control of costs
Improvement of profitability
Compression of the ‘cash to cash’ cycle

Customer testimony:

‘‘ Thanks to n.SKEP, we are able to anticipate and to be proactive ’’

Alice Aubry, Planning Manager

Janssen Pharmaceutica

‘‘ We have chosen DynaSys for its flexibility and capacity to adapt to our constraints. It was the only editor able to integrate with GERS, a pharmaceutical database for the improvement of our forecasts. ’’

Cyrille Sidawy, Head of Industrial Operations

Laboratoires Sandoz

‘‘ Beyond the fact that the tool was able to meet our requirements, we have selected DynaSys because of its technological platform corresponding much more to the IT standards of the Group. During the project, the high configuration capacity as well as the flexibility offered by the rule bases have been determining. ’’

Olivier Leempoels, Director of the Supply Chain Strategy

Johnson & Johnson

‘‘ Thanks to the implementation of the DynaSys planning tool we better control our production requirements according to demand, and we are also more reactive. ’’

Laurent Desmanet, Global Supply Chain Analyst

Baxter Healthcare

‘‘ In the short term, we managed to turn our production planning from a monthly bucket into a weekly one. It is fundamental for our reactivity, especially when it is necessary to react to the arrival of the flu virus within a few days only. ’’

Frédéric Duchesne, Director of European Logistics

GlaxoSmithKline

Arkopharma • Baxter Healthcare • Beecham • Ethypharm • GlaxoSmithKline • Ipsen • Janssen Pharmaceutica • Johnson & Johnson • Laboratoires Sandoz

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