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Vertical integration and strategic sourcing in the biopharmaceutical industry

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Haupt, Lynne Felice
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Leaders for Manufacturing Program.
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Charles L. Cooney and Donald B. Rosenfield.
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Abstract
Biopharmaceutical companies are focusing on operational efficiency more than ever before due to cost pressures, generic competition, complex pricing, regulations, and globalization. Due to the low probabilities of success of drug development and achieving market penetration, it is critical for a company to optimize the sizing of a manufacturing facility to achieve maximum capacity utilization while avoiding or minimizing non-productive, idle capacity. In order to achieve high manufacturing efficiency and minimize capital risks, many firms elect to outsource various phases of the drug development value chain. This thesis investigates the major drivers for vertical integration and outsourcing in the biopharmaceutical industry. This work examines outsourcing and vertical integration decisions including their financial, organizational, and strategic effects on the organization. It presents a methodology and framework for strategic sourcing decisions and includes a set of quantitative tools for assessing outsourcing options and guidelines for selecting, implementing, and managing relationships with contract manufacturers. These frameworks are applied to case studies conducted at the Genzyme Corporation. The strategic sourcing decisions tools developed in this work are highly customizable and can be adopted by other companies in the biopharmaceutical industry.
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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2005.
 
Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-78).
 
Date issued
2005
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34827
Department
Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering; Sloan School of Management
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Keywords
Mechanical Engineering., Sloan School of Management., Leaders for Manufacturing Program.

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