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Abstract Serialization – Need of the Hour Lack of global co-operation on agreement with one common technology over the years has delayed the process of serializing the drugs. By and large, majority of the regions have come up with consensus to have a Unique level Identification Code (UIC) on unit level pharmaceutical products. With almost …

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One of the key areas that has gained increased attention in several organizations in the last couple of years is integration of transient travel with meetings travel. With increasing supplier pricing, corporate buyers are looking to increase their negotiation power with suppliers by leveraging their volume. This has resulted in the increased need for convergence of transient travel, and meetings and events among corporates.

Watch Harshita Thukral, Beroe’s travel expert along with Chris Nicholas, a veteran of more than 20 years in the travel management industry address various challenges faced by corporates when integrating transient travel, and meetings and events by addressing various procurement strategies.

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In collaboration with Mohammad Azhar, Domain Lead — Warehousing and Distribution Germany and Hungary re-imposed border controls early in September as European nations struggle to cope with thousands of asylum seekers arriving every day. Border controls, albeit temporary, significantly impacts road transport — and business have already raised concerns about a re-imposition of passport checks …

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Early this year, India’s weather office, India Meteorological Department (IMD), said that monsoon rainfall is expected to be 88% of LPA (Long Period Average), which potentially indicates that 2015 could turn to be a year of drought. Even though monsoon was better than expected, Central and Northern states experienced deficit rainfall due to El Nino …

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Evolution in market research procurement: Unbundling data & analytics

CPG & Pharma companies are increasingly faced with the challenge to get real time insights on their consumers. But is primary market research the only option? Not really, if you consider the advent of big data companies who also provide cost advantage. Thanks to the relative insulation from market research inflation.

Watch Beroe’s marketing research expert Veerappan M when he talks about how pharma and CPG procurement can harness benefits once big data and analytics are unbundled.

About the speakers:

Veerappan M

Veerappan is a Market Research category expert at Beroe Inc. and holds an M.B.A., degree from Cardiff University, UK.

In his two years at Beroe, Veerappan has built extensive knowledge and expertise applied towards end use markets such as Consumer products, Pharmaceuticals, Financial Services and Telecom. He has written several thought leadership papers touching upon impact of emerging research techniques & media on innovation in market research and inflation rates applied on market research studies.

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In my previous blog post, I talked about the need for procurement to shift from a focus on “savings/PPV” to a focus on measuring their impact on the organization’s competitive advantage. I showed how relative cost competitiveness could be measured by procurement organizations. Clearly, there are more dimensions that procurement organizations need to optimize – …

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Aarthi Sivaramakrishnan, AVP and Head of Human Resources, Beroe, won ‘Women at Work Leadership’ Award at Asia Pacific HRM Congress 2015 presented by Ascent. Link: http://ift.tt/1ipKewc You can read more about Aarthi here: http://ift.tt/1KacYlt

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In collaboration with Vaishnavi Loganathan, Research Analyst and Hariharan B, Domain Lead — Pharma Folic acid, which belongs to Vitamin B class, is needed to prevent anemia. Pregnant women with folic acid deficiency are more likely to have babies with birth defects. China is the primary producer of Folic acid. Owing to implementation of the …

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This whitepaper discusses the challenges faced by marketers across industries to reach the millennials (Gen Y consumers) who are highly tech-savvy and prefer reading news online and on mobile devices to reading newspapers. Similarly, they prefer digital coupons over newspaper coupons (Free Standing Inserts). Due to the increasing share of Gen Y purchases, marketers are …

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An effective procurement decision making needs a clear understanding of supply chain and then devising the strategies for not only minimizing the cost but to understand rationales behind price movements in future. As some of the chemicals require a lot of technical know-how, high capital investments, their market becomes oligopolistic. Oligopolistic markets generally tend to …

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MRO spend is considered nuisance by procurement managers since MRO products or services are not needed directly in production. However, MRO is highly important for industries in order to keep the plants and equipment running smoothly and efficiently. As a procurement manager MRO brings different challenges to the table. Managing large number of suppliers due …

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Large and medium MRO buyers consider e-procurement as an important sourcing strategy to reduce total cost of procurement. Electronic procurement defines the level of automation in an organization’s procurement process using web-based applications. It enables widely dispersed buyers and suppliers to come together, interact, and execute purchase transactions directly over the Internet. From creating and …

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Growth of the global parenteral excipient market, especially suspension agents and preservatives, is driven by increased demand for parenteral drugs from the biopharmaceutical industry which is growing at CAGR of 8-10% in US and Europe. The industry needs suppliers who can manufacture high purity parenteral excipients with good technical expertise, thereby meeting customers’ and regulatory …

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Many Fortune-500 banking organizations have started migrating from their mainframe application overloads towards open systems for enhancing flexibility in their core-banking applications, however only a few BFSI companies have completely migrated from mainframes. Large Fortune 500 banking companies have retained mainframes for managing critical applications and moved considerable workloads off the mainframes to achieve cost …

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Aarthi Sivaramakrishnan, AVP and Head of Human Resources, Beroe, was featured by the Quartz India. It took a Securities and Exchange Board of India directive, a six-month deadline extension, and penalties for non-compliance to ensure that listed Indian companies have at least one woman director on their boards. And we are not yet at 100% …

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Olefins are the base for producing Ethylene and Propylene – the two most important polymers that are used right from automobiles to packaging sectors. The advent of shale gas and falling crude oil prices have introduced very many dynamics into this market. And there are several challenges facing producers of Olefins around the globe. 1) …

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Beverages are one of the most competitive markets in terms of packaging and visual appeal. The influence of visual merchandise on the purchase decision is very high, which only adds to the criticality of packaging. Most of the brand owners and metal can convertors alike, have been constantly trying to push the limits of innovations …

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Polyethylene, a versatile resin used for both rigid and flexible packaging accounts for almost 33-35% of the global resin demand. It is produced primarily through two different routes, crude oil and natural gas. Naphtha, a crude oil derivative, is a widely used raw material for producing polyethylene across the world. Global polyethylene prices are also …

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The Caribbean and Central America region are being viewed as attractive delivery destinations for global contact center services. Low cost of operations, time-zone proximity with the United States and availability of both English and Spanish language speaking talent, infrastructure capability to support, and educated labor force in this region offers attractive value proposition to organizations …

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