Compliant Manufacturing for Life Sciences

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Microsoft solutions provide a real-time view into your operations to help control the high cost of manufacturing, respond to changing conditions and improve regulatory compliance.

The high cost of manufacturing operations

Despite rigid product-quality regulations, pharmaceutical firms have never made cost-effective manufacturing a top priority. A relatively low cost of goods sold meant bad batches could simply be thrown away. But this is no longer the case. Increased regulatory demands to ensure product quality and intensified cost pressures are driving life sciences companies to seek greater efficiencies from their manufacturing operations. Microsoft provides the application platform and core infrastructure to enable real-time manufacturing visibility.

Many life sciences companies perform production planning, scheduling and monitoring in isolated proprietary systems, which slows responses to changing conditions or problems. Plants are often managed in isolation and systems do not support coordination among factories. Long production line downtimes, excessive waste and high inventory levels often result. Even worse, without easy communication among factories, organisational learning becomes a challenge. Mistakes may be repeated across manufacturing plants and additional production batches may be lost.

When your managers cannot monitor the manufacturing process in real time, they can face worrisome delays in detecting quality issues. Production time is lost as employees investigate problems and work to solve them. Not only is production line utilisation negatively affected, but, in the worst case, regulatory action may result, jeopardising your entire business.

Without a comprehensive, real-time view of manufacturing operations, your managers lack the information they need to best allocate production resources and ensure regulatory compliance. As inefficiencies mount, costs become harder to control and system upgrades become more challenging.

Agility is key

Your organisation needs an easy-to-use solution that provides the right information to the right people - at the right time in the right place in the right format. This solution should collect, share and store information from disparate sources in an accessible, intuitive format. It should aggregate data across business functions and manufacturing sites in real time - fostering collaboration and giving managers greater visibility into manufacturing performance. The solution must help provide security, which will facilitate regulatory compliance.

Microsoft and partner solutions

By partnering with industry-leading solution providers, Microsoft enables life sciences manufacturers to collect, manage and share the right information with the right people with an application platform and core infrastructure that enables real-time manufacturing visibility.

Our compliant manufacturing solutions can help you harmonise IT architectures in your plants around the globe and optimise infrastructure, helping you to overcome geography and disparate factory systems to deliver key information in an accessible, user-friendly way. These intuitive solutions help provide a secure environment for enhanced collaboration among departments and factories.

And solutions built on the Microsoft platform offer built-in compliance features that streamline the collection of data needed to meet regulatory standards. This infrastructure can also improve the ability of your plant managers to access historical production information and refine the process to enhance efficiency.

Using a compliant manufacturing solution from Microsoft you can obtain a complete, real-time view of manufacturing operations and drill down into the details at any factory to quickly spot and solve problems.

Faster response

Our compliant manufacturing solution helps pharmaceutical manufacturers respond to changing conditions and improve regulatory compliance. The solution helps provide security, is easy to validate and seamlessly integrates with existing systems to create powerful, flexible workflows. The solution also fosters collaboration across the manufacturing process - among plants, suppliers, and wholesalers and distributors - promoting better factory utilisation, customer satisfaction and inventory control. And the systems are accessible from any location through a web browser and a secure network connection.

Equipped with real-time information, managers can detect potential problems as they emerge. Because all information related to production is collected and stored in a central database, you can investigate and solve problems faster.

Accelerate production

With a compliant manufacturing solution from Microsoft and our partners you can:
  • Allow people to visualise manufacturing operations in real time
  • Gather, integrate and present real-time manufacturing data from disparate systems and multiple plants
  • Analyse operations performance with the capability of drilling down into the details for greater insight
  • Facilitate collaboration in real time across geographic boundaries, between different internal business functions and with outside customers and suppliers
  • Control manufacturing costs
  • Help speed drugs to patients, improving company performance and public health