Pharmaceutical Outsourcing at The Outsourcing Weblog

An Offshore Outsourcing World reader asks: Do you know which Pharmaceutical Companies are currently involved with offshoring/outsourcing to lower cost countries? Any help would be appreciated. 3 loosely related topics that are making headlines lately are: offshoring of radiologists to India china is eagerly recruiting cutting edge bio-scientists, with lax research regulations so is singapore Also - there is the list that Lou Dobbs has prepared, of companies that are outsourcing offshore: (list link is under the [...] Read More


Research and Markets offers 'Outsourcing Clinical Development' at The Outsourcing Weblog

With the many challenges facing large pharmaceutical companies nowadays there is a need to reduce development costs by as much as 30-40%, while at the same time significantly shortening development cycle times. If outsourcing is to meet these challenges, new models of collaborative and cooperative working are needed. Research and Markets now offers " Outsourcing Clinical Development", a guide that discusses new models and future clinical outsourcing strategy. The new paper [...] Read More


Green Light for Pharmaceutical Outsourcing in China at The Outsourcing Weblog

China has been a place for controversial place to do business lately because of the issues surrounding this manufacturing hub. Despite of such controversies, Pharmaceutical outsourcing in China was given a green light by one of the biggest Pharmaceutical companies in the world which is GlaxoSmithKline. There are two main functions in outsourcing Pharmaceutical tasks in China. These two main tasks are: -Being a service provider -Being a drug developer The Chinese government in [...] Read More


Biotech and Pharmaceutical Outsourcing In China/Asia at The Biotech Weblog

That the biotech industry will soon be outsourced to Asia is a trend that almost everyone expected. In 2006, we'll be likely to see more of that, as science parks and facilities that match those in the US and Europe are developed. Prospects of tax breaks and other incentives, as well as the lower operating overhead costs, attract a lot of biotech firms into setting up shop in the region. An [...] Read More


Again pharmaceutical: RFID can boost service level... at Supplychainer

The vice president and general manager of global packaging services at Cardinal Health has spoken of his enthusiasm regarding the implementation of ultra-High frequency (UHF) radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to improve pharmaceutical supply chain management. Following a pilot scheme by the healthcare product and service provider that trialled the technology, Renard Jackson believes that by using RFID tags on a daily basis, the supply chain can benefit from "an added [...] Read More