The pharmaceutical marketplace is dominated by large multinational companies, competing worldwide, with a global presence in branded products. Retaining marketshare requires standards of product quality and reliability close to 100%, attained at sustainable cost. Wholesalers and final customers expect reliability and quality from pharmaceutical companies, which face an increasing challenge to achieve such standards. Reliable production plans are critical to this aim. In fact, to achieve 100% availability of final products, it is not sufficient to attain excellence in each phase of the planning process from strategic planning to real-time scheduling, but it is also important to effectively manage the coordination between these different phases
Models and Methods for Production Scheduling in the Pharmaceutical Industry / Pacciarelli, Dario; Meloni, Carlo; Pranzo, Marco (INTERNATIONAL SERIES IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE). - In: Planning Production and Inventories in the Extended Enterprise : A State-of-the-Art Handbook. Volume 2 / [a cura di] Karl G Kempf; Pınar Keskinocak; Reha Uzsoy. - STAMPA. - New York, NY : Springer, 2011. - ISBN 978-1-4419-8190-5. - pp. 429-459 [10.1007/978-1-4419-8191-2_17]
Models and Methods for Production Scheduling in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Carlo Meloni;
2011-01-01
Abstract
The pharmaceutical marketplace is dominated by large multinational companies, competing worldwide, with a global presence in branded products. Retaining marketshare requires standards of product quality and reliability close to 100%, attained at sustainable cost. Wholesalers and final customers expect reliability and quality from pharmaceutical companies, which face an increasing challenge to achieve such standards. Reliable production plans are critical to this aim. In fact, to achieve 100% availability of final products, it is not sufficient to attain excellence in each phase of the planning process from strategic planning to real-time scheduling, but it is also important to effectively manage the coordination between these different phasesI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
