With increasing development costs and ever evolving global compliance needs, biopharmaceutical companies are looking to accelerate and increase agility across their global network of production and quality control laboratories, but success on this front requires more than incremental improvements. Biopharmaceutical manufacturers need to transform their businesses by using a holistic planning and scheduling approach that spans across the entire product lifecycle spectrum - driving operational excellence and sustainable manufacturing.
In today’s dynamic healthcare marketplace, biopharmaceutical companies need increased plant agility, throughput and time-to-market against demand while optimizing cash & assets. Dassault Systèmes’ Production Scheduling industry solution provides our customers with agile digital planning and scheduling to improve on delivery time, optimize resources and reduce working capital.
The Challenge
In any manufacturing industry, production is the driving force to which most other functions react. The changing business environment in which biopharmaceutical manufacturers are acting has even more challenges than most with the added rigorous regulatory requirements for record keeping, data integrity, sign-offs, quality and stringent traceability. Biopharmaceutical companies struggle with efficiency and optimization in their laboratory and manufacturing processes while trying to move beyond the blockbuster model and deliver more - sometimes even personalized - high quality therapies to more people, globally, at lower cost.
In addition, as therapies become more sophisticated, manufacturing and quality testing has become a highly complex and often a globally distributed endeavor. Work load balancing and scheduling at site level is dependent on production and testing across other sites requiring a global solution for the whole manufacturing.
The Solution
Production Scheduling provides integrated management of product and process-related constraints for detailed production scheduling across multiple resources: machines, operators, tools and metrics in the fast-moving twenty-first century biopharmaceutical manufacturing environment. Companies can improve production flows and batch release by simulating multiple scenarios considering forecasts, resources, and variable production processes. Reduce production material constraints through continuous synchronization of supplier production with your manufacturing operations; and increase production utilization at finite capacity by balancing production lines and resources while managing unplanned events.
The Benefits
Up to 50% Reduction in Cycle Time
Up to 60% Time Saved on Planning
Up to 40% Reduction on Inventory
Up to 50% Improvement on Customer Service
Video: Dassault Systemes Production Scheduling puts Life Sciences Manufacturers in Control
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Real Customer Story: Optimizing Production Scheduling and QC Lab Efficiency
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White Paper: Digital Transformation in Production Planning and Scheduling
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