Transforming the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain, Wiley, 2024

All you ever wanted to know about pharmaceutical supply chain management—Fact, not Fiction

You may remember this?

It’s been a while since I mentioned the new book for Wiley HQ in New Jersey. The manuscript is well advanced and it will certainly go into the publication process before Christmas, see the previous post:

his is the preface in draft:

Preface

With this book I’ve endeavored to bring fresh thinking and perspective to building, managing, and improving pharmaceutical supply chains. In so doing, my fervent and enduring aim is to help catalyze disruptive innovation in this globally important industry. Although new to pharma, the approach recommended is not actually novel in any way. Nearly every other industry sector uses, at least to some degree, the principles I will outline here for you. Ultimately, businesses only survive in the long term by consistently delivering value for money to those using their products. The pharmaceutical industry has been delinquent on this score for many a year.

You may be surprised to learn that this is not my first attempt.

In 2011, Supply Cha…