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Thursday, June 30, 2005
Critical Chain Case Study - Pharma -- Over at CCPM software provider Realization's site is a case study on the implementation of Critical Chain-based multi-project management in a pharmaceutical environment...
Implementing the new approach has boosted performance of clinical supply operations:
Lead times were reduced from 8-12 weeks to typically 3 weeks, a reduction of about 70%.This is substantially lower than the industry average of around 6 weeks.
Due-date delivery was over 90% (for five consecutive months).
Without additional resources, about 50 studies were now packaged every month, a throughput increase of 150%.
Besides the quantitative improvements, there are also qualitative benefits felt by project participants. Managers feel in control of operations and now make decisions proactively to stop problems before they become problems. Another benefit seen is that as the rank and file do not need to multitasking (because they get clear task-level priorities), they can focus on delivering highest quality output. This is extremely important in clinical trials, as any quality problems can lead to the whole clinical trial results being rejected by FDA.
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