How the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to make fragile pharmaceutical manufacturing supply chains more resilient

Posted on 25 Jun 2021 by The Manufacturer

The need to rapidly scale up production, while maintaining the validated process, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic left many pharmaceutical manufacturers questioning their increasingly offshore supply chains. But what is the answer when it comes to shoring up supply of raw materials and ensuring production requirements can be met?

Pharmaceutical manufacturing supply chains are complex and, as highlighted by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, also fragile.   The global Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc with pharmaceutical manufacturing supply chains since it began. At a time when supplies of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), intermediaries and additives needed to be as solid and reliable as ever, it was the very…

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