The Biotech and Pharmaceuticals industry is facing clear challenges as growth and profitability expectations continue to increase. Everything from pricing pressure, M&A actions to drive synergies, and changing regulatory environment, to operational issues around supply chain and manufacturing are driving biopharma companies to adjust their operational model. In addition, the COVID-19 experience has clearly highlighted gaps in crisis response and supply base agility that need to be addressed.
How We Help Our Clients
We bring ARGO-EFESO’s worldwide experienced and success across many life sciences segments to each client engagement. Our focus is always to achieve and sustain superior levels of performance through:
Improve equipment and process throughput – meet changing revenue streams and backlog
- Improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of bottleneck equipment to drive more throughput
- Improve overall labor productivity – eliminate process waste and balancing operations
- Continuous improvement techniques for labor involvement
Supply Chain optimization – disciplined review of manufacturing and distribution network, logistics excellence, and enterprise SIOP
- Cold chain logistics and liquids shipping
- Logistics network analysis including cross border operations
- Warehouse and DC network optimization
- Packaging excellence – avoid labeling / packaging errors due to complexity and manual processing
- Evaluation and setting-up efficient cross-border labor intensive operations
- CRO / CMO management and optimization
Procurement Excellence – purchasing strategy, sourcing and vertical integration perspective
- Make/buy strategies to develop a plan for every part (PFEP)
- Strategic localization vs globalization – regional purchasing of materials and services to economic zone (America’s, Europe, Asia) for self-sufficiency
- Master service agreement (MSA) deployment to CMO / CPO / CRO Management
Quality and FDA compliance
- Standardization of testing and quality management for new products
- Preparation of Quality Playbook and Best Practices
- Lab work and routines process optimization
- Yield maximization and process stability using 6 Sigma method
- Digitization for standardization and sustainment
Merger and Acquisition Planning and Integration – real capture of synergies for long term value
- Sell side / buy side operational due diligence, including the setup and management of “clean teams”
- Design and set-up of integration teams and plans (command center set up)
- Operational synergies evaluation and on-time execution
- Program Management – tracking of integration effectiveness, financial & operational plan stewardship, coordination of advisors (legal, financial, other)
- Asset deployment analysis to eliminate redundancies (eg. Footprint rationalization)
- Management Team alignment and coaching
