What Patients Need to Know about Pharmaceutical Supply Chains—Chapters 8 & 9
Everything a critcal thinker needs to know about the supply chains for SARS-CoV-2 injections—packed with facts and evidence that can't be refuted.
8. REAL WORLD EXAMPLE
Product launch preparations
The block diagrams above do not do justice to the complexity of the supply chain for launch, so I am including an example of real-world preparations for product launch, once the development work is nearing completion.
This is from a project I worked on as a permanent employee in 2003/4. My role was to head up the supply chain launch activities for producing a compound to be distributed by the marketing partner. The partner was a large biologics producer based in South San Francisco. I was brought in to bring commercial supply chain management skills to proceedings.
The marketing partner was experienced and demanding. My employer, the company developing the compound, was on its first product launch. Figure 8 is a schematic of the supply chain when I arrived.
Figure 8. Supply chain developed for launch
It's important to say at the start that the development team were exceptionally qualified to undertake pharmaceutical development activit…