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Reducing Waste with Intelligent Automation Accelerates Clinical Trial Success
Published on Pharmaceutical Outsourcing
Dec 18, 2024
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In this article, Stefan Duerr, Sr. Director & Head of the IQVIA Drug Supply Center of Excellence, highlights the importance of optimizing supply chain management in clinical trials to reduce waste and improve efficiency. Clinical trials often face significant waste due to temperature excursions, poor forecasting, and inadequate inventory management, leading to higher costs and delays.

New therapies, like gene and cell treatments, add complexity and require robust automation to manage their supply chains effectively. Intelligent automation and integrated data strategies, such as machine learning and interactive response technology, can enhance real-time monitoring, improve forecasting, and reduce waste. These technologies help ensure the safe and timely delivery of investigational medicinal products (IMPs), benefiting patient outcomes and reducing operational costs.

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