Archives: Agenda

• Selecting the right suppliers: criteria for evaluating and choosing temperature controlled logistics partners
• Building strong partnerships: fostering effective communication and collaboration with suppliers
• Best practices in drafting and managing contracts and supplier agreements
• Feedback mechanisms and performance reviews to enhance supplier relationships and logistics processes

• Ensuring biological materials comply with CBP and multi-agency regulations
• Understanding import requirements in the trade environment and when traveling with biological materials
• Preventing common discrepancies to avoid delays which can be costly and impact research

• Balancing cost alongside other considerations when selecting vendors
• Key factors to consider when choosing vendors and partners in clinical supply
• Advantages and disadvantages of choosing large vs small vendors
• Working with international partners: additional challenges and how to address these

MODERATOR: Christine Von Raesfeld, Board Member and Lived Experience Expert, The Light Collective

• Explore how integrating patient perspectives into clinical supply chain planning can reduce trial burden, improve retention, and build long term trust. This session will highlight best practices in collaborating with advocacy groups, designing flexible logistics, and aligning operational excellence with patient experience.

• Understanding FDA regulations and guidelines for ensuring quality and integrity
• Implementing GMP standards to maintain consistency and reliability in production and distribution of trial materials
• Adopting a risk-based approach to quality management
• Establishing robust supplier qualification processes to select reliable partners and ensure adherence to quality standards

Interactive roundtable sessions offer a unique opportunity to come together with your peers to share best practice and develop solutions to critical challenges facing the clinical supply chain industry as a whole. Hosted by industry experts and each focused on a single issue, roundtables are an exciting, interactive way to build your personal network and learn from the experience and expertise of others. Each roundtable will last for 45 minutes, after which delegates will be given the opportunity to swap to a different roundtable.

ROUNDTABLE 1: Topic TBC
Carmin Cerullo, Agriculture Operations Manager, San Francisco and Portland Field Office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Jolien Wychules, Biological Threat Operations Specialist, San Francisco and Portland Field Office, U.S. Customs and Border Protection

ROUNDTABLE 2: Topic TBC
Luiz Barberini, Head of External Manufacturing, Latin America, Bayer

ROUNDTABLE 3: Data, analytics and GenAI in clinical supply chains