World's Largest Bio Life Sciences Supply Chain Community to Meet in San Francisco for Annual Meeting

Jan. 7, 2011 - PRLog -- The world’s leading community for the bio life sciences supply chain professional will be gathering on November 7-8, 2011, for the 4th annual Bio Supply Chain Academy conference. The 2-day conference titled “Reducing Healthcare Costs and Maximizing Patient Care: Supply Chain Partnering, Innovation and Entrepreneurship” will address the enormous challenges in the Bio Life Sciences industries in terms of management strategy and tactics for government regulations compliance; building effective product value chains from R&D to commercialization; applying best practices in lean and just-in-time manufacturing; global procurement; end-to-end supply chain risk; cold chain distribution; talent and career development; and IT Systems for B2B and enterprise solutions.

Industry leaders will address reducing healthcare costs and maximizing supply chain partnering, innovation, and entrepreneurship between suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and hospitals.

PREVIEW OF THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
•   Healthcare Industry Outlook: The 3 Cs - Cost, Care and Compliance
•   Research: $ and Cents, Wall Street’s Assessment of the Biotech Industry
•   Pedigree: Advancing Patient Care & Meeting the Government Mandate
•   Serialization: Technology, IT Systems and Networks, Best Practices and Impediments to Overcome
•   R&D and Commercialization: Overcoming the Achilles' Heel
•   Supply Chain Management: A Global Virtual Biotech Network
•   Strategic Procurement: For R&D to Delivery of Patient Care
•   Outsourcing R&D, Clinical Trials Management and Manufacturing : China, Europe and India
•   Biologics and Biosimilars: Overcoming the Scientific and Regulatory Hurdles!
•   Information Technology Solutions: Lowering Cost of the B2B Network
•   Information Technology Showcases: Increasing Enterprise Productivity
•   Visibility in the Supply Chain: Achieving the Holy Grail
•   Supply Chain Talent Development: The Industry Imperative!
•   Supply Chain Management: Lessons for Small & Medium-Sized Biotech Enterprises
•   Risk Management Research: End-To-End Supply Chain Perspective
•   Risk Management Mitigation: Visibility, Collaboration and Insurance
•   New Frontiers of Distribution Fulfillment: Ensuring Agility, Adaptability and Alignment
•   Cold Chain: Technologies and Services for Tracking, Safety and Compliance
•   Cold Chain Management 101: Training & Certification  
•   SCOR Model Results: Best of the Breed

The Bio Supply Chain Academy Conference in 2011 will bring together business executives, academicians, researchers, industry organizational leader, government representatives, management consultants, service providers, IT experts, technology solution innovators from over 100 companies.  The two-day conference will consist of thoughtful leadership, industry research, best-of-breed case studies from the biotech, biopharma, and biomedical device industries, workshops and training, and technology solutions for profitability and growth of enterprises while meeting complex regulatory challenges.

The Call for Papers requests expert speakers to present topics which will enhance the practice and principles of supply chain management in the biopharma industry. The deadline for paper submissions is July 1, 2011.

For more information visit www.biosupplyalliance.org

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About Bio Supply Management Alliance

The Bio Supply Management Alliance, which organizes the Conference, was born of the need to create a worldwide community of operations and supply chain management leaders and professionals in the biotech, biopharma, and biomedical device industries. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, home to more than 400 bio firms, the Alliance provides a forum for collaboration, learning and best practice sharing of practitioners, executives and thought leaders in these uniquely demanding industries. Our advisors are senior executives from top firms, thought leaders from academic institutions such as MIT, UC Berkeley, Golden Gate University, and Pepperdine University and organizations such as APICS the Association for Operations Management and Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals.

Because life depends on us, the Bio Supply Management Alliance supports continuous learning and improvement of bio life sciences supply management professionals.