Mani Sundararajan

Vice President & Head of Global Pharmaceutical Technology
Shire Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceutical Technologist and Six Sigma Black Belt with a proven track-record of 25 plus years within R&D and Technical Operations, recognized for creating sustainable value and delivering significant productivity gains by transforming and, or building customer centric, technical organizations aligned with business strategy. Broad experience spanning, Development, Supply Chain, Technology Management & Strategy.

Currently the VP & Head of Global Pharmaceutical Technology organization at Shire. In this capacity, Mani lead's the global organization by establishing and executing a compelling vision and strategy for the organization. GPT is accountable for technical stewardship & oversight of late-stage development, process optimization, manufacturing, packaging and testing of all synthetically derived APIs and Finished Products within the Shire Product Portfolio. We currently support 28 Products, at various stages in their life-cycle, across a network of 50+ CMOs situated around the globe.

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Supply Chain Effeciency Across the Global Network

Tuesday, May 9th, 2017

09:10 CASE-STUDY: Using Near Real- Time Performance Metrics to Ensure a Robust and Resilient Supply Chain

Shire has transformed its supply chain for the synthetically derived drug products in its portfolio to a completely outsourced model with the underlying principle that excellent safety, quality, and availability will achieve improved patient outcomes. In order to execute on this, the company has focused on creating unified partnerships with its suppliers to ensure that it remains one of the gold-standard supply and manufacturing organizations. In this session, Mani Sundararajan, the VP & Head of Global Pharmaceutical Technology, will discuss the following:

How Shire is utilizing their Process Management Informatics platform for oversight of their processes
The Product Quality & Technical Teams role for reviewing performance and proactively driving continuous improvement
Ways that Shire and its partners have created a collaborative and transparent relationship to drive process robustness and supply resiliency
Attained 100% OTIF performance and a Lot Acceptance Rate of greater than 99.7%.