PHARMA SUPPLY CHAIN XCHANGE
EAST COAST
Boston
June 28, 2023

Welcome to hubXchange’s Pharma Supply Chain Xchange East Coast 2023, bringing together executives from pharma and biotech to address and find solutions to the key issues faced in pharmaceutical supply chain.

Discussion topics will cover Innovation & Optimization, Resilience, Sustainability and Transportation & Supply Disruption.

Take advantage of this unique highly interactive meeting format designed for maximum engagement, collaboration and networking with your peers.

Venue: Hilton Boston Woburn Hotel, 2 Forbes Road, Woburn MA 01801

SNAPSHOTS OF DISCUSSION TOPICS

Track 1: Innovation & Optimization

Cold chain analysis, digital transformation and data science
Looking at the power of AI

Track 2: Resilience

Analyzing resilience enabled through SC visibility
Strengthening the resilience of pharmaceutical supply chains: End-to-end transparency

Track 3: Sustainability

The role of SEC requirements in reporting
As pharma supply chain professionals, what impact can we make?

Track 4: Transportation & Supply Disruption

CDMO selection & how that can differ for large and small pharma
Impact of supply chain disruption response & supply chain performance on shortage management

Full Xchange Agenda

Click on each track for detailed agenda

Innovation & Optimization

Time

Titles and Bullets

Facilitator

08:00 – 08:30

Registration

08:30 – 09:00

Opening Address & Keynote Presentation
Uncovering vulnerabilities: the power of mapping your supply chain to strengthen your strategy

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed how little organizations know about their supply chains and underscored that vulnerabilities can’t be mitigated if we don’t know they exist. Building agile and resilient supply chains requires a complete, accurate, and current view of every supplier from Tier-1 to Tier N.

Kerry Stahlin

Senior Customer Success Manager, Sourcemap

Kerry brings 7 years of experience in Customer Success and overseeing the lifecycle of best in class solutions for our pharmaceutical clients. She is passionate about traceability, transparency, and the customer experience.

09:05 – 10:05

Material Supply Strategies in the “New Normal”

Why do we need a “New Normal”
What can we do about it?
How can we prevent the things we can’t control?

Jim Marshall

Director of Materials
Management, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Jim Marshall is currently the Director of Supply Chain at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals overseeing material planning, procurement, and third-party warehousing/logistics. He joined the Alnylam team in January 2022 and continues to transform the lives of patients as part of the world’s leading RNAi company. Jim’s experience includes over 20 years of Supply Chain Management with Alnylam, Genzyme, Sanofi, and Bristol Myers Squibb. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix and holds a lifetime accreditation as a Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.) from the Institute of Supply Management.

10:10 – 10:40

1-2-1 Meetings/Networking Break

10:40 – 11:10

1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break

11:10 – 11:20

Morning Refreshments

12:20 – 13:20

Networking Lunch

13:20 – 13:50

1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break

13:50 – 14:20

1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break

15:25 – 16:25

Evening Drinks Reception

Resilience

Time

Titles and Bullets

Facilitator

08:00 – 08:30

Registration

08:30 – 09:00

Opening Address & Keynote Presentation
Uncovering vulnerabilities: the power of mapping your supply chain to strengthen your strategy

Kerry Stahlin

Senior Customer Success Manager, Sourcemap

Kerry brings 7 years of experience in Customer Success and overseeing the lifecycle of best in class solutions for our pharmaceutical clients. She is passionate about traceability, transparency, and the customer experience.

09:05 – 10:05

How to measure and improve raw material supply chain resiliency?

A strong raw material supply chain enables the pharmaceutical industry to respond quickly to changes in demand, supply disruptions, and regulatory requirements. This ability to quickly adapt to changes in the market environment is critical in a highly competitive industry, where innovation and speed to market are key success factors.

What factors are important when measuring raw material supply resiliency index?
How can companies be agile to mitigate supply disruptions?
How can Artificial intelligence (AI) help monitor, predict and mitigate supply disruptions?
How can End-to-end (E2E) supply chain visibility can help increase resiliency?

Vaibhav Padhiar

Supply Chain Manager, Amgen

As a highly skilled supply chain professional with over 8 years of diverse experience in developing resilient and agile supply chains in the biopharmaceutical, healthcare, and automobile industries, Vaibhav has a proven track record of implementing effective supply chain tools and processes with AI powered data analytics. Notable achievements include developing automated processes for new product introductions, creating inventory optimization algorithms, and implementing supply risk assessment tools. His expertise in procurement, demand & Supply planning, and operations has consistently yielded positive results for the organizations he has worked with such as Amgen, Kohler and TATA.

10:10 – 10:40

1-2-1 Meetings/Networking Break

10:40 – 11:10

1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break

11:10 – 11:20

Morning Refreshments

11:20 – 12:20

The key to resilience – know your supply chain

Why End-to-end supply chain mapping is critical to anticipating disruptions and shortening response times
What does building agile and resilient supply chains require?
What are the best practices for every stage in supplier outreach?

Kerry Stahlin

12:20 – 13:20

Networking Lunch

13:20 – 13:50

1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break

13:50 – 14:20

1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break

14:25 – 15:25

Leveraging the Power of Data to reduce Supply Chain Friction

What is your perception of what data really is in the context of Supply Chain
What are your biggest challenges with Data and are you operating with full integrated data across various Business functions.
How would you describe your organization’s approach to address your primary data reliability goals?
How are you exploring new/existing technology related to drive integrated data and accuracy?
Are you currently evaluating your operations and supply chain for end-to-end transparency, traceability, and optimization?

Opeyemi Odusami

Associate Director, Global Supply Chain Product Lead, Sanofi

Odusami is an experienced finance, accounting and Supply Chain professional with demonstrated history of working in the Biotechnology and Financial Services industry. He is skilled in Business Planning, Management Business/Supply Review/Supply Chain Control Tower Facilitation, Financial Controlling, SAP ERP, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), TM1, Teammates+, Financial Planning and Analysis, Cost Accounting, Audit/Compliance. He also has experience with process improvement and KPI development.

15:25 – 16:25

Evening Drinks Reception

Sustainability

Time

Titles and Bullets

Facilitator

08:00 – 08:30

Registration

08:30 – 09:00

Opening Address & Keynote Presentation
Uncovering vulnerabilities: the power of mapping your supply chain to strengthen your strategy

Kerry Stahlin

09:05 – 10:05

How pharma companies are achieving sustainability in their product supply chains, with a special focus on logistics

How do companies define sustainability – what are the key topics that come up?
How can we lower the ecological footprint of logistics – reduce CO2 emissions?
How can we encourage reusability of passive shippers?
How does your company overcome hurdles like – lack of technical / process expertise, lack of budget?
How can we make progress in a cost neutral way?
How should we think of distribution network optimization from the perspective of achieving sustainability?

Kaizar Lehri

Head of US Supply Chain Coordination, Takeda

Kaizar Lehri is the Head of US Supply Chain at Takeda Pharmaceuticals Inc. Kaizar has over 20 years of experience in planning, operations, distribution and logistics, customer service and product launch, in the pharma and biotech industry. He has led clinical and commercial supply chain teams in companies like Corbus, Regeneron, Biogen and UCB. He completed his undergraduate studies in engineering from University of Mumbai, and his MBA from Emory University.

10:10 – 10:40

1-2-1 Meetings/Networking Break

10:40 – 11:10

1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break

11:10 – 11:20

Morning Refreshments

12:20 – 13:20

Networking Lunch

13:20 – 13:50

1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break

13:50 – 14:20

1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break

14:25 – 15:25

As pharma supply chain professionals, what impact can we make?

Looking at how to deal with suppliers today in the new post Covid World
How can we gain different views on meeting today’s challenges
Manufacturing and Development still needs to occur?

Louis Berard

Director of Supply Chain Operations, Candel Therapeutics

Louis Berard has been a global supply chain & operations leader for over 30 years. He has been creative in diverse business conditions, acting as a change agent, who blends strategic planning with tactical execution, resolving complex business challenges while developing high performing global teams and programs, to meet and exceed business challenges. He has worked for some of the top Fortune 500 companies along with being an Industry Consultant and Senior Analyst. Louis is currently the Director of Supply Chain with Candel Therapeutics. Where they are developing immunotherapies that induce immunogenic cell death in cancer cells at the site of injection.

15:25 – 16:25

Evening Drinks Reception

Transportation & Supply Disruption

Time

Titles and Bullets

Facilitator

08:00 – 08:30

Registration

08:30 – 09:00

Opening Address & Keynote Presentation
Uncovering vulnerabilities: the power of mapping your supply chain to strengthen your strategy

Kerry Stahlin

Senior Customer Success Manager, Sourcemap
Kerry brings 7 years of experience in Customer Success and overseeing the lifecycle of best in class solutions for our pharmaceutical clients. She is passionate about traceability, transparency, and the customer experience.

09:05 – 10:05

Digital Supply Chain to support clinical trials

Emerging supply chain transformation initiatives in pharmaceutical, life sciences, and biologics companies
Challenges in the packaging and distribution space since 2020
Visibility of shipments and inventory
Discuss initiatives to drive growth, competitive advantage, and efficiencies in the supply chain.

Tony Li

Senior Manager, Global Clinical Supply, Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Tony Li joined the global clinical supply team in 2022 and has been supporting two phase III studies, including label, packaging and global distribution for rare disease patients in over 100 countries. Prior to Alexion, he worked for Charles River Labs for five years as a Sr. Manager, Global Categories, leading category strategies, strategic projects, Supply Chain analytics, contract negotiations and SRM & KPI Metrics. In addition, he led logistics planning for kidney care division at Fresenius. He redesigned the direct to patient delivery model and managed the RFP projects for both linehaul and last mile freight. In the first 10 years of his career, he had various Operations roles at Trelleborg and Sinochem, both in Asia and the Greater Boston area.
He studied Supply Chain Management at MIT and is Lean Sigma Certified through Purdue University and ‘Certified Supply Chain Professional’ (CSCP) through APICS. In his spare time, he volunteers for CSCMP as VP of Programs of the New England Roundtable.

10:10 – 10:40

1-2-1 Meetings/Networking Break

10:40 – 11:10

1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break

11:10 – 11:20

Morning Refreshments

11:20 – 12:20

Wagner Fire Prevention by means of Oxygen reduction

What: Proactive Fire Prevention. Avoid unnecessary business disruption through false fire alarms, or even the total loss of your stocks through fire, smoke or water damage from prinklers. Not being able to supply in time can lead to supply penalties or customer loss. Fires can result in loss of lives, buildings and stock. This hazard can be avoided:

Where :Critical Infrastructure – businesses, such as the pharmaceutical / biotech / Life Sciences industries, rely on an absolutely intact supply chain. Warehouses, Archives, Server Rooms, Electrical Rooms

How: The WAGNER solution: OxyReduct (Oxygen Reduction) fire prevention along with Tetanus Aspiration earliest possible Smoke Detection provides you with permanent peace of mind and the close to zero chance of a fire in the warehouse, archive, data centre or server room. The state of the art warehouse is today is “lights out” ASRS (Automatic Storage and Retrieval System) which usually are very densely packed. They contain much electronic equipment. Densely Packed means there is a high value concentration. A high electronic load in the room implies is a high potential fire hazard.

Mission: Modern fire prevention has the mission of:

Protecting lives – avoiding fire
Preventing damage to buildings
Avoiding business disruption due to fire and false alarms

Jesper Hansen

MSc Food Science, Global Account Director – Cold Chain Solutions, Wagner Fire Safety

Hansen has 30+ years of international experience within the food and pharma/biotech industries supplying processing, packaging and safety systems.

12:20 – 13:20

Networking Lunch

13:20 – 13:50

1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break

13:50 – 14:20

1-2-1 Meetings / Networking Break

14:25 – 15:25

Contract manufacturing Operation selection criteria

What process does your organization use for external supplier selection?
Has the section process changed since supply chain issues have become a larger concern?
Do we always choose a supplier that can support multiple services?
How do we leverage technology to select the best partner.

Christopher DiNardo

Senior Director of Procurement, Beam Therapeutics

Christopher DiNardo is a highly experienced professional with over 17 years in the industry and is currently the Head of Procurement and Strategic Sourcing at Beam Therapeutics, where he successfully implemented the procurement and sourcing function for an emerging biotechnology company. In his current role, Chris leads a team responsible for sourcing a portfolio with a global focus, covering functions such as cell line development manufacturing, external clinical research organizations, and indirect service providers. He has also developed a strong supplier relationship management process,
ensuring continuity of supply and service while maintaining the highest quality standards. Chris is passionate about talent development and strategic partnerships and has played a key role in creating best-practice procurement policies and procedures. He is committed to maximizing company
savings and ensuring procurement plays a pivotal role in supporting his organization’s goals.

15:25 – 16:25

Evening Drinks Reception

PHARMA SUPPLY CHAIN XCHANGE
EAST COAST
Boston
June 28, 2023