Manufacturing and supply chain excellence
A combination of regulatory, market, scientific, and technological forces is likely to mean that pharmaceuticals manufacturing and supply chain process will undergo rapid change in the near future. There is a need for companies to more consistently align investment in IT, manufacturing and supply chain with their vision of the manufacturing and supply chain that will be needed in the future. Companies will have to step up their quality and manufacturing compliances and bring in cost and efficiency of supply chain.
We help our clients:
- Quality transformation, FDA remediation and inspection readiness
- Supply chain transformation and ops excellence
- Operations and facilities due diligence
- Manufacturing strategy and footprint expansion
- Strategic sourcing, logistics
- Productivity improvement
- Production and operations
- Integrated planning and post-sales support technology
Growth strategy and commercial excellence
In the current environment of poor product pipelines and broader customer bases, the traditional commercial operations model of driving revenue with ever larger sales forces is no longer sustainable. Rather organisations will evolve to become more efficient and deliver differentiated effective messages tailored to the specific needs of diverse customer segments including patients, insurers, government and physicians, and the changes on product mix.
We help our clients :
- Therapy area entry or growth strategy
- Maximising sales from S&M investments
- Inorganic strategy (M&A, licensing, DD)
- Field force strategy and effectiveness
- Product portfolio prioritisation
- Overseas market entry strategy
- Pricing strategy and market access
- New product launch and brand building
Research and development
As the industry faces a whole host of individual yet challenging issues, it is difficult to see how best to navigate the immediate and long term future. We work closely with our clients to help formulate a new strategy for success and achieve increased performance by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the company’s R&D operations. Our advisors have a wealth of industry based R&D experience and expertise with a deep understanding of finance, tax, risk management/compliance, IT systems, operations and human resources.
We help our clients :
- R&D centre strategy
- Maximise value from R&D investments
- Optimising technology transfer processes
- R&D quality systems assessment
- Differentiated and super Gx pipeline strategy
- NCE/biologics asset development strategy
- Enhancing throughput and pipeline efficiencies
- Global hub and spoke model for R&D
People, processes and implementation
Pharmaceuticals and life Sciences companies invest heavily in their people. The challenge is to make sure that investment is effective, attracting and retaining people with great skills, and motivating them to do the right things in the right way. By combining our expertise in people strategy and business effectiveness, reward and compensation, employment services, retirement benefits, actuarial, international mobility and transactions, we are able to deliver solutions on all issues relevant to the development, reward and management of employees within pharmaceuticals organisations.
We help our clients :
- Capabilities mapping and plugging gaps
- Streamlining sales, HR, IT processes
- Programme management of strategic initiatives
- Leading significant change efforts
- Organisation structure, roles and RASCI clarity
- Digital strategy implementation
- Implementing review mechanisms/MIS
- Organisation assessment and transformation
Governance, risk and compliance
The pharmaceuticals and life Sciences industries are among the most heavily regulated industries in the world. The regulatory environment is continuously changing in response to the effects of globalisation and harmonisation, outsourcing emerging markets, increasing complexity of disease targets, introduction of new technologies and the rising sophistication and demands of both patients and regulators.
We help our clients :
- Internal Audit
- USFCPA
- USFDA Compliance
- UCPMP /Selling code
- UK Anti Bribery
- Other Compliances
Digital
Technology is an important enabler of business transformation. Businesses need to adopt new behaviours, learn new skills and embrace new ways of working to succeed. As customers rapidly adopt digital, our service offerings are helping our clients respion to their customer's needs and anticipate future ones. Digital is not just about the technologies. Its' about new ways of solving problems, create unique experiences and accelerating business performance..
We partner with our clients through our digital offerings to help determine what success looks like, innovate their business and create new value.
- Digital strategy and engagement
- Digital behaviour - HCP archetypes
- Customer experience strategy
- Patient engagement service design
- User experience and design
- Usability testing
- Digital analytics - Understanding digital channel performance
- Media effectiveness
- Emerging technology scan and implementation
- Innovation accelerator
Data and analytics
PwC Data and Analytics (D&A) practice uses information as a strategic weapon to transform businesses; embeds analytics in operational systems and business processes to help companies realise the true value of their data; brings deep functional knowledge that accelerates the generation of domain-specific insights from information & analytics and employs advanced, well-tested, technologies to address challenging problems for our clients. We have a pool of 500+ D&A consultants, with 100+ specialised in advanced analytics join client engagements, who apply their knowledge to solve specific business challenges.
We help our clients :
- BI and data management strategy, vendor evaluation
- BI on ERP
- Enterprise wide data warehouse implementation
- Financial planning, budgeting and consolidation
- Analytics strategy
- Analytics maturity assessment and benchmarking
- Analytics model implementation
- Analytics competency centre set-up
Cyber security
Our comprehensive cyber security services not only help businesses to assess, build and manage their cyber security capabilities, but also enable them to respond to incidents and crises. We are globally recognised as a leader in cyber security. Internationally, we were ranked as the top professional security consulting services firm in Gartner’s competitive landscape report in 2013.
We help our clients :
- Security strategy and governance
- Security architecture
- Threat and vulnerability management
- Security implementation
- Security as a service
- Identity and access management
- Risk and compliance
- Incident management
