The Pharma Outsourcing and Procurement Summit 2012 Programme Is Now Live!

Feb. 24, 2012 - PRLog -- The Pharma Outsourcing & Procurement summit will bring together over 100+ senior level professionals to address the urgent need for pharma to identify and locate the best outsourcing partnerships and solutions to stay competitive in an uncertain climate whilst addressing heightened regulatory pressures and need to maintain high quality standards.

The summit to address the growing outsourcing requirements in contract manufacturing, bulk, fill finish, drug delivery and formulation, Research & development API sourcing.

The programme will feature key topics such as:

•Risk Management In Outsourcing
Assessing the technological capabilities of outsourcing partners
•Cost Management & Outsourcing Strategy
Successfully identifying cost advantage of transferring services to low cost countries
•Technological Transfer
Negotiating better deals in tech transfer management in order to get better deals
•Benchmarking vendors
Setting up an efficient collaborative benchmarking process between your outsourcing partners
•Contract Management
Effectively gaining expertise, contracts and insights to execute emerging markets
•Relationship Management
Efficiently managing short, medium and long term relationships in a long distance

View the full agenda www.outsourcingevent.com

The conference structure is designed to help you:

•Ensuring quality control in strategic partnership
•Finding the right partner
•Successfully managing a strategic relationship
•Getting the right contract
•Intellectual property rights
•Emerging laws and legislation

Speakers include:

•Ulrich Rümenapp, Head Biotech Projects, Bayer
•Beatrice Serckx , Director Outsourced Manufacturing, UCB
•Jennifer Goodfellow, Senior Director & Global Head of Clinical Outsourcing, Sanofi Pasteur
•Nick Welby, Procurement Director, Astrazeneca
•Ingrid Lux, Head of Quality Control, Sandoz
•Vasco Marcal Grilo, Vice-President Global Pharma R&D Sourcing, Johnson & Johnson

The WTG event structure composes of presentations with current themes, panel discussions and workshops. In addition pre-arranged one-to-one meetings enable close networking possibilities. Delegates and Sponsors will meet only those who express mutual interest in a personal meeting to maximise possible business connections at the event.


Event Facts and Figures:

-Pharma Outsourcing and Procurement Summit is a 2 day conference
-The dates have been set for 21st – 22nd May 2012
-The event is taking place in Berlin, Germany offering delegates the rare opportunity to meet with other attendees, arrange one-to-one meetings with leading speakers Bayer, Johnson&Johnson, Sanofi Pasteur
-Around a 100 end users are to be expected
-Visit www.outsourcingevent.com or call +44 (0) 2072027690 for further information

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About World Trade Group
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