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What is Supply Chain Planning

Global Supply Chains in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Supply chain planning (SCP) is the forward-looking procedure of organizing resources for enhance the conveyance of merchandise, administrations, and data from provider to client, adjusting free market activity.
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Characteristics of Pharmaceutical Supply Chains
Senthil Kumar Ponnusamy (SSN College of Engineering, India) and Anbalagan Saravanan (Rajalakshmi Engineering College, India)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5921-4.ch008
Abstract
The pharmaceutical supply chain is presently a noteworthy research topic in process operations and administration. A lot of research has been embraced on office area and configuration, stock and circulation arranging, limit and generation arranging, and point-by-point planning. Just a little extent of this work straightforwardly addresses the issues confronted in the pharmaceutical division. The pharmaceutical industry is facing extraordinary difficulties caused by a maturing population, the expanding expense of medicinal services, the priority given by the governments to bring down the cost of medications, boundaries to a passage in developing markets, and the more extensive reception of non-specific medications. These are quite recently a portion of the many difficulties making weight on the overall revenue of pharmaceutical firms. Expanded expenses of R&D and a diminished number of affirmed sedates additionally demonstrates that the lion's share of prescription, which is anything but difficult to find, has just been found.
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