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Event details

Date: June 26, 2014
Time: 11:00 – 12:00 EDT
Duration: 60 minutes
Speaker: Ramesh J. Chougule, Associate Vice President, SAP Life Sciences, Infosys
Kevin Brophy, Industry Principal, National Leaders for Life Sciences, SAP

Event overview

Clinical trials are a critical phase in the drug development lifecycle and entail a long, complex process. Drug makers need an efficient supply chain with best-in-class IT infrastructure to provide timely and accurate supply of drugs to patient sites at optimum cost. All this, while ensuring compliance with regulations and good manufacturing practices (GMP).

Why attend?

Attend this webinar to learn how to:

  • Improve control over your project cycle for clinical trial management, including logistics, scheduling, and costing for end-to-end clinical trial supply chain
  • Enable traceability of materials, variants, and kits throughout the supply chain for improved compliance standards
  • Reduce implementation costs by up to 50 percent and running costs by up to 40 percent
  • Reduce inventory overages by up to 40 percent

Session details

Topic: Lessons from optimizing clinical trial supply chain processes: Cloud and on-premise CTSM
Date: June 26, 2014
Time: 11:00 – 12:00 EDT
Speaker: Ramesh J. Chougule, Associate Vice President, SAP Life Sciences, Infosys
Kevin Brophy, Industry Principal, National Leaders for Life Sciences, SAP

Speaker profiles

Ramesh J. Chougule, Associate Vice President, SAP Life Sciences, Infosys

Ramesh has over 17 years of industry experience. For the last eight years, he has been associated with life sciences as head of SAP services globally. He is responsible for delivering SAP programs to life sciences clients, defining solutions, and providing consulting expertise in pre-sales. He is also responsible for growing the SAP business in the Life Sciences unit. He has been instrumental in defining and launching several solutions on the SAP platform. In addition, he drives AMS transformation agenda for marquee clients and helps them mature the services.

Kevin Brophy, Industry Principal, National Leaders for Life Sciences, SAP

Kevin has over 25 years of experience in supply chain, and manufacturing process and technology. He has spent the last 18 years at SAP working with life science customers. Currently, Kevin is a life sciences industry value engineer expanding the SAP Life Science customer base. In addition to co-innovating with customers to provide leading-edge technology solutions, he is working to integrate industry needs and regulations with SAP processes.

Related Reading

Infosys Clinical Trial Supply Management

Press release: Infosys launches cloud-based clinical trial supply management solution