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Pfizer - Wyeth UK

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Wyeth is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies. Its UK manufacturing site at Havant is a centre of excellence for the packaging and supply of some of the company's most advanced medicines and vaccines including a breakthrough biological treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, innovative vaccines against meningitis, and a new class of antibiotic. The medicines are distributed in approximately 3000 shipments per year to 122 end customers covering Europe, Asia–Pacific, Middle East and Latin America. We package approximately 35 million packs into 250 variations of pack type. Over half of the shipments require a significant level of technology to ensure they are delivered in the correct temperature-controlled conditions. The 22-acre site is populated by 600 staff, and incorporates state-of-the-art packaging, storage, and distribution management systems. We pride ourselves on our ability to be flexible, agile and fast, as the vital medicines we prepare and supply improve patients’ lives worldwide. Our work disciplines include: logistics and warehousing, engineering, technical support, quality control, pharmaceutical packaging, management, finance, IT, HR and training.

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Operational Excellence...Lean manufacturing...Continuous improvement...Process improvement...Change management... Distribution ...Logistics...Strategic planning...Culture change..Communication...Project selection & management... DMAIC...A3 Boards

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Operational Excellence

The company is embarking on a journey of operational excellence. We will share with you the path we have taken and why, some of our successes and some of our learning’s. Again this will be an interactive process where the theme will be on sharing experiences.

Organisational Design

As a result of the change in site profile we have had to change the way we do business from an organisational design. We will share with you the process we followed and the lessons we have learnt.

Site Strategy development

The site is in the process of changing its reason for being. We will show you the process we have used to create the site strategy and then link the strategy to objectives and key performance indicators. This will be an interactive session where we will pull from you how we can improve this process further.

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Pfizer - Wyeth UK website
www.wyeth.co.uk
Testimonials about Pfizer - Wyeth UK
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“Good overview of how a large company plans, implements and monitors change.”
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