Thought Leadership

Integrating governance, processes and systems

Our perspective on the strategic role of sourcing and procurement articulated in articles, podcasts, and webinars.

Essential Medicines And The Need For A Robust U.S. Supply Chain

Essential medicines play a vital role in America’s health, and the supply is closely monitored by the FDA and industry groups. These medicines sustain life, providelife support and/or the prevention of debilitating diseases. The inability to supply these medicines to the market adversely impacts patients and their families’ lives. Currently, there are 227 essential medicines across all dosage forms which face arisk of supply shortage.

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July 14, 2025

Financial Leadership of Strategic Procurement

With ongoing global inflation, rising interest rates, changing work environment and growing supply chain risks, CFOs are looking for efficient ways to work with their procurement and sourcing teams to maintain growth, profitability and compliance.

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August 2, 2023

Betting the House: CDMO Selection for Emerging Pharma

Improving the odds of selecting the right CDMO for your organization requires an evaluation of market analysis, manufacturing and quality assessment, financial discussion, and several other key factors. Both the sponsor and the CDMO need to know they can build strong relationships with people to address complex issues while meeting tight deadlines.

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March 18, 2022

Article

Procurement as a Trusted Advisor

Importance of governance, process and systems/data

Article

Analysis, Collaboration and Partnership

Building trust to be invited to the table of decision making

Webinar

Spend Analysis in BioPharma

Spend analysis for an emerging biopharma company

Podcast

Understanding Procurement From an Advertising View

Sourcing & Procurement support of marking and ad buying

Article

Protecting Your Revenue Stream is About Protecting Your Supply Base

4 Steps to managing supply risk

Article

Crisis Management - COVID Exposes supply risks for emerging life science companies

Many emerging life science companies are ill-equipped compared to larger companies to deal with major disruptions.

Co-written with Tunnell

Podcast

Are your Suppliers Supporting Your Growth?

Importance of establishing a procurement and sourcing function for an emerging pharma company.

 

Co-written with Jonathan Horn

Article

The Lasting Impact of COVID-19 on Emerging Life Science Supply Chain

Using COVID-19 to develop a supply risk framework.

 

Co-written with Bill Connell

Article

De-Risking Sourcing
in the
Pharmaceutical Industry

An interview with ISM about Managing supply risk.

 

Co-written with Bill Connell

Article

Betting the House: CDMO Selection for Emerging
Pharma

4 step framework to help emerging pharma companies select a CDMO

 

Co-written with Greg Anthos