Pharmaceutical News
ProModel invites you to the Capacity and Productivity Improvement for
the Pharmaceutical Industry Conference
Using Simulation Technology to Improve Decision Making Capability
Dates: Oct 11-12, 2006
Location: New York Marriott East Side
Conference Topics Include:
R&D
• Strategic Planning
• Resource Investment Analysis & Allocation
• Product Development Prioritization
• Communicating the Solution Across the Organization
• Clinical Trial Recruitment Analysis
• Product Development Cycle Time/Time to Market Reduction
• Managing/Reducing Costs
• Portfolio Planning and Analysis
Manufacturing
• New Product Introductions
• Customer Delivery Performance
• Expansion or New Construction
• Outsourcing Decisions
• Prioritization and Implementation of Process Improvement
Projects, SixSigma, Lean, or Right First Time Initiatives
• Managing in a changing environment – adding and
subtracting products to the manufacturing production mix
• Supply Chain Design & Analysis
• Capacity Planning/Schedule Analysis
• Resource and Asset Management
Speaker Preview:
Raul Walker
Director, Research Informatics, Pfizer Global Research
The Cultural Acceptance and Growth of Simulation at Pfizer Research
Bill Connell
Tunell Consulting
Utilizing ProModel Simulation to Improve the QA Function Process and to
Improve the QC Lab Operation: Two Pharmaceutical Industry Case Studies
Alan Poirier
Director, Analysis Metrics & Performance Group, Pfizer Global Research
& Development
Workflow Forecasting – Common Workflow Currencies We Can Use to
Assess Future Workloads
Mike Vanderspool
Project & Portfolio Manager, Pfizer Pharmacokinetics
The Evolution of Modeling Dynamic Resource Demand
Tharuvai Ramesh
Director of Operations Planning, Wyeth
Dynamic Simulation: A Tool for Operational Excellence in the Biotechnology
Supply Chain
Greg Gordon
Engineering Manager, Smiths Medical
Use of Simulation in Design for Six Sigma
Chris Kelley
Associate Director, Pfizer
Predicting Regulatory Resource Requirements in Portfolio Simulator
John McGee
Senior Process Engineer, Merck
Vaccine Process Engineering
Brief Agenda
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Wednesday, October 11:
Registration 8:00 - 9:00
Welcome & Sessions 9:00 - 12:00
Lunch 12:00 - 1:30
Sessions 1:30 - 5:00
Networking Reception 6:00 - 7:00
Dinner Social 7:00
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Thursday, October 12:
Welcome & Sessions 9:00 - 12:00
Lunch 12:00 - 1:30
Sessions 1:30 - 3:00
Closing 3:00 - 3:30 |
Registration:
To register for the conference please use the ProModel
Online Store.

Conference fee is $695.For additional questions please
contact Christine Bunker at: phone (801) 223.4601 or
by email: cbunker@promodel.com.
Accomodations
New York Marriott East Side
The East Side Marriott hotel is easy walking distance to Times Square,
Grand Central Station, and is minutes from Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue.
This architectural jewel has been redesigned to reflect its magnificent
art-deco past .
Register for your hotel room by contacting the New York Marriott
East Side directly at 800-228-9290 or 212-755-4000 and request the ProModel
conference room block rate of $399.
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