- Coordinating across regulatory, logistics, and compliance teams to ensure seamless global shipments
- Anticipating geopolitical and policy shifts that impact trade routes and study timelines
- Strengthening communication with regulators, CROs, and suppliers to reduce delays and risk exposure
Archives: Agenda
Digital Twins in clinical supply forecasting
- How Bluefin’s proprietary digital twin architecture enables RTSM integration and accurate, real-time forecasting
- Case study: Accurately forecasting a close call as enrollment accelerates
- Case study: Explaining high overage driven by short shelf-life – turning a stakeholder question into a data story
From concept to clinic: operationalizing the pharmacy card clinical trial supply model
- Understanding the pharmacy card model
- The program lifecycle: from design to delivery
- A day in the life: sponsor & sites
- Proof of performance: feedback and case studies
Advancing clinical development through direct-to-patient models and Artificial Intelligence
- Examining patient and site perceptions of direct-to-participant investigational product shipments
- Understanding how decentralized distribution models influence engagement, site workload and data integrity
- Exploring how AI is supporting trial design, operational efficiency and decision-making across the study lifecycle
Exploring patient-centricity in the clinical trial supply chain
- Benefits and components of patient-centric model
- Current challenges including patients and researchers perspectives
- Implementation and AI tools
Afternoon refreshments and networking
CTS sourcing and procurement trends and challenges – external manufacturing as the “procurement´s operational arm”
Accelerate, cultivate, innovate!
- Managing relationships with the modern supplier
- How Bayer’s external relationship governance model adds value to the business ensuring a reliable partnership and complements the sourcing & procurement functions within CTS scope
- Trends on procurement roles and the necessity to have an operational perspective
- Different approaches from different business necessities
- Trends on how to best manage CMOs, 3PLs and clinical trials partners
Integrating Forecasting and RTSM – unlock the full potential of your clinical supply chain
- Forecasting: testing RTSM resupply algorithms to reduce waste and prevent stockouts
- Real-time control: Monitor your trial in real time and react quickly to changes
- A key data source for forecasting: Use RTSM data to improve clinical demand accuracy over time
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Top five inspection preparation tips for clinical supply chain teams
- Strengthening inspection readiness through audit-ready documentation and traceability
- Mitigating risk through robust deviation and excursion management
- Enhancing compliance through strong vendor oversight and team preparedness