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Agenda

  

DAY ONE
Tuesday 19th October 2010

 

8.30 Registration and welcome coffee

8.45 Speed networking
Get to know your peers right from the start in this informal speed networking session. Bring your business cards!

9.05 Opening remarks from the Chair
Kim Sweeny, Principal Projects Officer, Centre for Strategic Economic Studies Victoria University

OUTLOOK

9.10 Establishing a worldwide standard for the healthcare supply chain

  • Launching GS1 Locatenet for Healthcare
  • Facilitating direct electronic communication between organisations wanting to source, supply and trace medical goods and pharmaceutical suppliers from the National Product Catalogue

Fung Har Chan, Senior Business Analyst – Supply Chain, NEHTA

9.45 Using procurement to manage supply chain performance and supply risk

  • Managing end-user needs and product families to enhance manufacturing outcomes
  • Developing procurement agility to manage in volatile markets
  • Matching the benefits and challenges of product sourcing through procurement management
  • Using procurement to manage capital and operating expenditure

Guy Callender, Chair - Leadership Strategic Procurement, Curtin Business School

10.20 Morning tea

10.40 INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE: Guaranteeing patient safety along complex global supply chains

  • Introducing the Good Distribution Passport
  • Benchmarking the standard for the industry and promoting its use by all service providers regionally and internationally

Pat O’Loughlin, Director, Life Sciences Ireland, Republic of Ireland

11.15 Using value drivers to improve productivity in logistics and supply chain management

  • Establishing consistency and continuity of a productivity strategy through efficient logistics and supply chain management
  • Using a customer-centric approach to the value network
  • Finding innovative solutions to problems

David Walters, Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Institute for Transport and Logistics Studies University of Sydney

11.50 Do you know your business performance and potential?

  • The importance of benchmarking for supply chain success
  • Comparing end-to-end supply chain performance against competitors
  • Developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Steven Thacker, Director, Benchmarking Success

12.25 Lunch

1.25 Laying the foundation for improved patient safety – The Monash Pharmacy project

  • Seizing the opportunity to introduce greater efficiency in the supply chain
  • Shedding light on different project stages
  • Looking forward

Ian Larmour, Director of Pharmacy, Southern Health Victoria

MEDICAL SUPPLY CHAINS AND DISASTER RELIEF

2.00 Supply chains at the extremes – How can we help better?

  • Designing ‘fit for purpose operations’
  • Solutions for the ‘last mile’
  • Designing co-ordination models that align with the needs of each phase
  • The problem of donor behaviour and donor expectations for the supply chain

Kim Winter, Group Managing Director, Logistics Recruitment

ENHANCING PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT

2 .35 CASE STUDY: Queensland Health's Supply Chain Reform Project for Medical Goods

  • Why the need for change?
  • Consolidation of Supply services; including, procurement and physical distribution functions
  • Enhancement of end to end supply chain processes; including freight and imprest management
  • Benefits realization

Peter Rushbrook, Senior Director Supply Services, Queensland Health Shared Service Partner

3.10 Developing and implementing procurement strategies that deliver competitive advantages

  • What does ‘delivering competitive advantage’ mean in the context of the pharma and medical device industries?
  • How does the Procurement function contribute to competitive advantage?
  • How are we trying to drive competitive advantage through Procurement at ResMed

Philip Sarbutt, Senior Procurement Manager, ResMed

3.45 Closing remarks from the Chair

4.50 Close of day one

DAY TWO
Wednesday 20th October 2010

 

8.30 Registration and welcome coffee

9.00 Opening remarks from the Chair
Simon Coates, Associate Director, Portland Group

DRIVING SUPPLY CHAIN EFFICIENCY AND SECURITY

9.05 The benefits of in-house distribution

  • Using lean principles to significantly reduce source change times

Ross Linsley, Consultant
Ross will use his experience as an end-point customer, as a leader in sales, marketing, quality and process improvement to explore the potential benefits of tailoring and integrating distribution solutions for financial and customer benefit.

9.40 Security and integrity of the product supply (distribution) chain - Discussing the processes and issues involved when manufacturing, warehousing and distributing controlled drugs

  • Background on the secure supply chain for controlled drugs
  • Highlighting the necessity of having a secure supply chain from manufacturer to end user when handling controlled drugs
  • Discussing the rigorous international and domestic processes that controlled drugs are subject to: International Narcotics Board, importing and exporting regulations, and state and sational drug prescribing regulations
  • Minimising risk throughout the domestic supply chain through improved communication amongst all key stakeholders

Robert Ingui, Finance Director and Head of Logistics, Mundipharma

10.15 Morning tea

10.45 CASE STUDY: Building a clinical trial and distribution facility in Australia

  • Setting the benchmark for storage and distribution of clinical trial material in Australia
  • Supporting the domestic and global pharmaceutical, biotechnology and clinical trial companies in the sector
  • Assuring the quality of clinical trial products while hastening the regulatory permit process, reducing customs delays and lowering transportation cost

David Albaiceta, Managing Director, World Courier Australia

11.20 CASE STUDY: Transplanting supply chain management

  • Improving community access to organ donation
  • Translating world’s best practice into the Australian context
  • Establishing one national organisation to be the central point for all organ/tissue donor and transplant processes

Deb Verran, Transplant Surgeon, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION

11.55 Estimating the potential of a barcode-based product recall notification system for the pharmaceutical industry

  • Evaluating outcomes from first feasibility studies
  • The benefits of whole-string processes
  • The importance of implementing national standard identifiers

Marcel Sieira, General Manager Business Development, GS1 Australia

12.30 Lunch

1.30 PANEL DISCUSSION: The adoption of GS1 systems in the Australian pharmaceutical supply chain

  • Ensuring traceability and patient safety
  • High costs versus improved visibility

Ged Halstead, CIO, Clifford Hallam Healthcare
Marcel Sieira, General Manager Business Development, GS1 Australia

2.15 CASE STUDY: Driving innovation in cold packaging

  • Developing high performance systems for shipping temperature sensitive material
  • Cooling more efficiently through evaporation
  • Heating through an exothermic reaction

Ron Pierce, Technical Director Asia, Cool Logistics

2.50 Afternoon tea

3.20 INTERNATIONAL ADDRESS: Linking retailers with distributors

  • How the pharmaceutical supply chain could benefit from a supplier extranet
  • Simplifying communication between supply chain partners
  • Optimising capital commitment and facilitating flexibility within the ordering and delivery process
  • Increasing customer loyalty

Bernhard Webler, Director of Retail, MicroStrategy, Germany

3.55 Closing remarks from the chair

4.00 Close of conference

 

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