Going Beyond the Simple Customer - Supplier Relationship: Ensuring a High-Quality Supply Chain Through Transparent Partnerships

摘要

As the complexity of biopharmaceuticalmanufacturing increases (1),supply partnership management is becoming key to the successful continuous supply of drugs for patients. To prevent drug shortages, ensure robust recall management, and to seek to provide drug treatment to patients wherever they are located, the biopharmaceutical industry is building greater transparency into its vendor supply chains and developing supplier-end-user partnerships with best practices inspired from other sectors such as the automotive or electronics industries. As a leading international supplier, Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) is developing global supply chain management as a strategic goal for supporting the growth and expansion of the biopharmaceutical industry.