Pharmaceutical

Factory Layout

What Are The Various Factors To

Be Considered For Setting Up A

Plant For The Pharmaceutical

Factory.

Jinal Rathod 30

Nisha Pai 49

Pranali Rawool 53

Saachi Shetty 60

Zil Shah 81

GROUP MEMBERS

As the worldwide business climate has grown increasingly complex – due to globalization, consolidation, governmental regulation, labor issues, financial pressures, supply chain management and security concerns – the purview of “operations management” has expanded.

Operations management is the business function that plans, organizes coordinates and controls the resources needed to produce a company’s goods and services.

It is mainly concerned with managing the process that converts inputs into outputs.

It closely interacts with the accounting, finance and human resource management function in an organization.

Pharmacy is a highly competitive industry, and companies are experiencing financial pressures more than ever before.

Hence OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT IS THE CENTRAL CORE FUNCTION OF EVERY COMPANY.

OVERVIEW

Improves productivity: it refers to an effective

control of the conversion process of inputs into

outputs.

Improves our ability to meet customer needs:

enables us to provide service to our target

customers better than our competitors. Long

term survival of the company depends upon

meeting customer needs.

High goodwill: operations management plays

a key role in building the brand

name/reputation of the company giving an

edge over others.

IMPORTANCE

Operations management can help to implement strategic

objectives, strategies, processes, planning and controlling.

One of the primary focuses of operations management is to

effectively manage the resources of an organization.

Depending on the organization, operations management can

include managing human resources, materials, information,

production, inventory, transportation, logistics, purchasing and

procurement.

Operations management gives you a Competitive Advantage.

ADVANTAGES

Therefore the benefits of effective Operations Management

are as follows:

Continue improving the performing factors.

Reduction in inventory level.

Reduction in time taken to reach the market.

Increase the flexibility.

Quality improvement.

Communication within the department must be improved.

Reduction in support costs.

Less time wastage in production.

BENEFITS

The company discusses the emerging role

of product differentiation in the

pharmaceutical sector, and evaluates its

impact on sustainability of the industry.

Secondary data were used to study

various differentiation strategies and their

effect on market life of certain drug

products.

The study found that product

differentiation is being increasingly

employed to sustain the profitability of

pharmaceutical companies.

PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION

Set up

Investment to set up pharmaceutical plant

Follow rules and regulation and get licenses to start plant

Factory sites :

Sanitary locations with fresh air, water, roads and electricity.

Factory production, processing and packaging areas shall be constructed in according to building, and located at a sufficient distance from factory boundaries to prevent pollution and fires.

Safety measures against pathogens.

Health and safety of people near factory site should not be affected.

LAYOUT

Factory buildings :

Building should be solid and safe, designed to prevent rodents,

insects and dust.

Interior ceilings, walls and floors shall be smooth and free of

cracks, easy to clean.

Where necessary materials that are easily cleaned and

disinfected may be used.

All operation areas shall be well illuminated and ventilated.

Equipment for the regulation of temperature, humidity and air

purity may be installed.

Warehouses :

Storage of raw materials, supplies, semi-finished Products and

finished products

Operation areas :

Manufacturing factories area should be

clean.

Complete laboratory setup designs

(Instrumental, chemical, microbiological

Lab, Stability lab, Control sample area)

There shall be testing departments and

appropriate testing equipment.

If necessary separation walls may be

installed to carry different operations.

Facilities for the treatment of dust and powder,

wastewater, toxic containers and hazardous

wastes, gases components or materials.

Container washing Facilities are used in

factories manufacturing eye drops, injectable.

Biopharmaceuticals or biotechnology products,

special care shall be taken to prevent

contamination.

Facilities for the washing or sterilization of work

clothes, caps, face masks, gloves and shoes.

Employee lounges and shower rooms and

lavatory facilities should be provided.

Operation areas involving flammable or

hazardous products first-aid facilities should be

installed.

Facilities

Pharmacists practice in a variety of areas such as

Community pharmacies

Hospitals

Clinics

Psychiatric hospitals

Regulatory agencies.

Types Of Pharmacy Practice Areas

In-store Inventory and Operations Management solution for a pharmacy retailer

Overview

A leading pharmacy retailer in Europe incurred high operational costs to manage its inventory. Our client needed to ensure a smooth technology transformation and the co-existence of next-generation solutions.

Business need

The retailer experienced stock picking and counting errors in its processes. The company wanted a smooth and efficient technology transformation without heavy capital expenditure.

Key business challenges that Infosys had to address:

Monitoring of the store shelves to gather the sales quantity.

Tracking of excess stocks; for handling the stock that cannot be fitted into the sales.

Item movement tracking between the back shop and shelf.

Price management for verifying the prices encoded in the barcode on the Shelf Edge Labels and printing of these after price verification.

Space planning and management to allow standardization of the layout of items in the stores and to ensure that this layout is applied at the stores.

CASE STUDY

Our solution realized several benefits:

Reduction in stock management costs

Increase in stock file accuracy by approximately 10%

Increase in customer facing time and reduction in stock room units

Work load reduction by 15-20%

Sales alignment based on customer trends

Smooth and efficient technology transformation and phase out of

existing solution

Efficient store inventory management and operations handling