Outsourcing in the pharmaceuticals sector: the pros and cons

Outsourcing non-critical processes constitutes normal day-to-day business and best practice in industries such as aerospace, the automotive sector and telecommunications.  Losing the non-value add stuff so that more time and budget is available to spend on the critical?  A no brainer, surely?  But this is not yet the case in pharmaceuticals, an industry that transforms our lives with modern science, but whose approach to business processes can sometimes seem lacklustre by comparison.

Outsourcing is not a new concept to pharma per se.  Manufacturing capacity and clinical trials are frequently outsourced; and truck loads of documents and paperwork are shipped to clinical research organisations (CROs) on a regular basis.  But outsourcing an actual compliance-critical process? No way.

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