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Life Sciences
Build a healthier end-to-end supply chain.
A prescription for supply chain success
From getting the right products into the hands of patients, to keeping up with changing regulations, life sciences supply chains are complex—with very high stakes. That makes end-to-end coordination and orchestration vital, from innovation phase to the patient delivery. Discover how collapsing silos and leveraging attribute-based planning, expiry planning, inventory pooling, and optimized order flow management can help you achieve the best patient and business outcomes.
Unleash your supply chain’s full potential
Ensure doctors get the critical products they need when they need them with scenario planning and automated and optimized order planning and execution. Get the transparency and collaboration you need across your network with true enterprise-wide supply chain orchestration.
Respect region and customer specific sell-by dates while balancing long supply lead times and shifting demand with expiry planning. As orders come in, make the best, most cost-effective use of your network inventory with demand-driven, dynamic order allocation for just-in-time deliveries.
Meet all customer commitments by modeling shared materials capacities and planning parameters to determine co-and-by-products. Schedule and collaborate across plants to ensure maximum efficiency, while controlling constraints. Seamlessly add new distribution channels, sales channels, and logistics partners and dynamically partner according to each order’s requirements and service levels.
Incorporate process and equipment constraints globally with attribute-based planning. Account for local regulations with inventory pooling via batch-based supply allocation. Gain visibility over every touch point and transaction during execution to ensure compliance.
We’ve got your industry covered
From innovative medicines and treatments and life-altering devices, to individualized medicine and the contract organizations that keep production moving, Kinaxis is proud to serve the life sciences industry and sub-verticals.
Pharma
Med Tech & Device
Bio-Pharma
CMO/CDMO
Cell and Gene Therapy
Discover how you can connect your entire network of data, processes, and people, to continuously plan, monitor, and respond to the unique challenges and opportunities within your life sciences supply chain.
Less firefighting, more planning
When pharmaceutical company Merck increased its ability to see across its supply chain, employees were empowered to do more analysis and forecasting.
One platform. Endless concurrent planning possibilities.
Advanced planning in 12 weeks.
Get the critical capabilities you need across control tower, operational planning, supply planning, demand planning and inventory management, all operating concurrently on our industry-leading Kinaxis Maestro™ (formerly known as RapidResponse®) platform.
Sales and operations planning/integrated business planning in minutes instead of days (or weeks)
Set financial targets. Measure progress. Identify gaps between supply and demand. And re-balance plans so you can maximize opportunities, minimize risk and keep your business profitable in today’s volatile environment.
Supply and demand alignment in half the time
Complete, continuous visibility into whether demand plans can support material and capacity constraints and the agility to execute on those plans all the way down to the shop floor.
Respond to forecast changes in record time.
Stop guessing. Start planning. Create realistic consensus-based plans and proactively monitor and improve forecasts and order status. So you can maximize revenue, minimize costs and keep your customers happy.
Cut inventory and reduce stockouts.
Develop targeted inventory improvement solutions. Simulate changes to inventory policies. And understand and balance trade-offs between on-time delivery, revenue risk and inventory. So you can drive service levels up and costs down.
Take control of your supply chain in seconds.
Take control over what’s happening across your supply chain – from strategy through operations – with a real-time view of your entire ecosystem. Break down functional silos. Collaborate across company boundaries. And gain insights into risks and opportunities.
Trusted by life sciences customers
These life sciences companies changed their approach to supply chain planning with Maestro.
The supply chain treatment plan for your team’s needs
From managing supply and changing regulations throughout the clinical phase to ensuring you can meet customer demand and reliably getting that product to its end destination on time, Kinaxis will empower you to best serve patients and meet your goals throughout the end-to-end supply chain.
