Drug Solutions Podcast: Outsourcing vs. Insourcing in Biopharma: Determining the Best Strategy: Part 2

How can organizations determine when to outsource vs. insource? What factors can (or should) be considered? The right outsourcing strategy has the potential to limit unnecessary costs, maintain output and turnaround times, and enable continued flexibility. In part two of this outsourcing series, Meg Rivers and Jeff Henderson, key account manager of Vetter, discuss:

• What the biopharma industry currently tends to outsource
• Outsourcing strategies the biopharma industry should be utilizing
• Internal tasks the biopharma industry should consider outsourcing more in development and manufacturing
• What the biopharma industry should reconsider outsourcing and instead perform in-house
• What organizations are choosing not to outsource and why
• And more

About the speaker

Jeff Henderson, key account manager, Vetter: Henderson has served in a variety of positions as an engineer, consultant, and business development professional over the span of his 25-year career. He began his engineering and consulting role with Barry-Wehmiller Design Group in St. Louis, designing, installing, and validating filling and packaging lines for the food, beverage, and pharma industries before earning his MBA at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. After that, Henderson worked at Amgen where he was initially responsible for managing contract manufacturing operations at various packaging and sterile fill/finish sites in the United States. He later moved into a more strategic role in developing manufacturing strategies for clinical and commercial products in Amgen’s pipeline. In 2007, he moved to Seattle to focus on downstream efforts in automated warehousing and material handling before returning to a biotech engineering role at Medimmune’s pilot plant in Gaithersburg, MD. Following his position at MedImmune, he joined Vetter as a key account manager in 2010 and has been growing a solid business footprint over the past 12 years.

About the Drug Solutions Podcast

Pharmaceutical Technology presents the Drug Solutions podcast, where the editors will chat with industry experts from across the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical supply chain. Join us as experts share insights into your biggest questions—from the technologies, to strategies, to regulations related to the development and manufacture of drug products.

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