Health & Pharmaceuticals

Category Strategy Development

Global Pharmaceutical company

Situation

• £500m expenditure across 5 key categories
• Wholly outsourced supply chain – no manufacturing undertaken internally
• 5 key categories
• Need to improve the management of supply base relationships and approach to risk management

Approach

• Cross-functional workshop approach to identify business needs and requirements in each category
• Reviewed the supply base within the context of growth plans across key markets
• Structured development and analysis of supply market options
• Reviewed key processes – risk management and supplier management tools

Benefits

• Re-scoped the categories to better define the organisational boundaries and improve integration
• Developed new strategies for each of the five key categories resulting in a change of emphasis
• Recommendations made in regards to changes to supply base
• Introduction of new supplier management toolkit
• Introduced changes to the risk management process and regime