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Benchmark Your Company's Manufacturing and Other Supply Chain Practices

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, APQC, and IBM are pleased to offer two benchmarking initiatives in manufacturing and other supply chain processes. These joint research initiatives provide organizations a cross-industry and peer group comparison. In return for submitting data, you will receive a detailed custom benchmarking report at no cost.

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Benchmark Your Company's Manufacturing and Other Supply Chain Practices
10/22/2007
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, APQC, and IBM are pleased to offer two benchmarking initiatives in manufacturing and other supply chain processes. These joint research initiatives provide organizations a cross-industry and peer group comparison. In return for submitting data, you will receive a detailed custom benchmarking report at no cost.

Lean Manufacturing and Pharma: An Interview with Phil Emard
12/12/2006
If you’re launching Lean, be patient and stay the course, the Toyota disciple urges. Lean works, he says. It just takes a bit longer in pharma.

Ten Steps to Process Improvement, Part 1
11/13/2006
Six Sigma can, and should, become a way of life for mid-level manufacturing executives, directors and managers.

Economies of Scale for Manufacturing
07/18/2006
Eli Lilly’s process engineering manager Pankaj Mohan shares the technical and management secrets for ensuring the right economy of scale for any pharmaceutical manufacturing process.

Black Belt Not Required: What’s Your Strategy?
10/12/2005
Moving beyond routine management and fire fighting requires a strategy for business excellence — a strategy based on Six Sigma.

Black Belt Not Required: Where Did You Learn How to Drive?
06/30/2005
Data-driven management yields valuable business metrics to support your team's accomplishments. The key is to identify the types of data needed, using practicality as a watchword.

Team Building: Build Trust and Manage Conflict for Effective Teams
04/06/2005
How do you get team members to be less guarded and to say what they really think and feel? It starts with trust, says Cynthia Palka, president of Future Map, Inc.

Black Belt Not Required: Don't Wait for Six Sigma to Come to You
03/16/2005
If it's going to work, Six Sigma must be the way you do business, not just a tool or technique. Have you got religion? Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceuticals Group's Penelope Przekop helps you find your way.

Team Building: All For One and One For All
10/07/2004
Clear communications, the right structure and makeup, and a focused agenda are essential.