CONTENTS:-
I. Manufacturing OPERATIONS RATIONALIZATION:
1. Batch size Optimization
2. Conventional Formulation
3. Alternate Formulation for Manufacturing Flexibility
4. Suggestions for Future Research
5. Batch Size Determination-Practical Issues
6. Make to Stock items (MTS)
7. Make to Order items (MTO)
8. Relationship between Batch Size and Cycle Time
9. Current Practices in Pharma Industry
10. Production Process
11. Software for Optimization in Manufacturing
12. Heuristic for Improving Utilization of Module Type of Production Systems
13. Other Concepts for Manufacturing Optimization
14. How to Align Manufacturing to Demand?
15. Conclusions
16. Other Ideas in Manufacturing
17. Yield Improvement
18. Design for Manufacturability
19. Packaging Materials SKUs Proliferation
20. Japanese Way to US Market
II. WORKING Capital RATIONALIZATION:
1. Cost Reduction Concepts
2. Common Excipients
3. Optimization of Service Levels
4. Procurement Strategies for MRO Items
5. Streamlining of MRO Purchases
6. Constituents of Inventory Turns-Which One to Improve?
7. Inventory Turns-A Relook
8. Cycle Stock
9. Safety Stock
10. Working Capital Concepts
III. Marketing OPERATIONS RATIONALIZATION:
1. Finished Goods Inventory Planning
2. Controlling Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
3. Market Share Gaining Model
4. Organization Design for Selling Process
5. Judging Marketing Productivity
IV. R & D OPERATIONS RATIONALIZATION:
1. Synergy Among the Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
2. Whether Supply chain techniques can Help in this regard?
3. Intellectual Property Issues
4. QA Related Issues
V. PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
1. Successful Project Implementation
2. Optimizing Project Costs
3. Total Cost of Ownership
4. Cost Optimization
5. Product Planning for New Facilities to be Created
VI. SUPPLY CHAIN METRICS FOR EXCELLENCE:
1. Performance of a Global Distribution Centre (GDC) Warehouse
2. Measures That Need to be Controlled
3. Performance Evaluation in a Company
4. Benchmarking of Procure to Pay Processes (P2P)
5. Metric to Measure Elasticity of Supply Chain-Case of Dr. Reddy's
6. Another Way to Judge Inventory Performance
