Life Sciences Services
Optimize Your Manufacturing Supply Chain with Canon’s Warehousing and Materials Management at Your Facility
In the dynamic pharmaceutical industry, efficient in-plant logistics are essential for maintaining product quality, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enhancing supply chain performance. Canon Business Process Services offers integrated solutions tailored for life sciences manufacturing environments, enabling supply chain executives to achieve operational excellence, mitigate risks, and scale operations effectively.
Canon manages critical supply chain activities from receiving through distribution helping ensure safety, compliance, and on-time performance. We drive continuous improvement as a core part of our operating culture. To support consistent execution, Canon developed an Internal Logistics Excellence Program: a best-practices framework covering 10 fundamental areas. When we take over an operation, we focus on documenting processes, capturing data, and moving the program to a mature, controlled state. Our continuous improvement approach also emphasizes quality at the source: you define the SOPs, and Canon follows them and trains on-site teams to execute to your standards.
Canon drives continuous improvement initiatives to improve performance, promote the safety culture and hold to your schedule. The range of in-plant logistics services include:
Material Handling: Ensure seamless movement of raw materials, components, and finished goods within your facility, supporting uninterrupted production.
GMP Warehousing: Maintain product integrity with warehousing solutions that adhere strictly to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Good Distribution Practice (GDP) standards, offering secure storage and comprehensive inventory control.
Kitting: Enhance production efficiency by assembling materials into ready-to-use kits, delivered precisely when and where needed.
Line-Side Supply: Support agile manufacturing processes with just-in-time (JIT) delivery directly to production lines, tailored to the specific needs of biologics, cell and gene therapies (CGT), and complex batch processing.
Cold-Chain Handling: Protect temperature-sensitive products with rigorous cold-chain logistics, including monitored storage and transportation that meet all regulatory requirements.
Plant Embedded Logistics Operations: Benefit from on-site logistics support focused on continuous process improvement, workforce management, and real-time operational assistance within your plant.
How a Leading Biopharma Company Improved its Warehouse and Materials Management Operation
Seeking to reduce labor costs and improve its processes within its internal supply chain, a biopharmaceutical company leveraged Canon Business Process Services expertise in warehouse and materials management. Canon understands the unique requirements for handling biopharma materials and oversees staff management, receiving, storing, and delivery.
Solutions Built for Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Executives
Canon’s in-plant logistics services are engineered to address the top imperatives for pharma supply chain leaders:
- Network Resilience - Implement robust logistics operations to maintain continuity and respond swiftly to disruptions.
- Cost to Serve Reduction - Optimize logistics processes to reduce overhead and eliminate inefficiencies throughout the supply chain.
- Capacity Flexibility - Utilize scalable resources and expertise to accommodate varying production volumes, including expansions in CGT, biologics, and cold chain operations.
- Risk Mitigation - Adopt comprehensive compliance-driven protocols to minimize exposure to labor, quality, and regulatory risks.
- End-to-End Integration - Achieve unified processes, technology, and reporting across all logistics functions for complete operational visibility.
- Proven GMP/GDP Compliance - Leverage industry-best practices for regulated pharmaceutical environments, ensuring adherence to GMP and GDP standards.
- Scalability Across Plants - Implement standardized and adaptable models to ensure consistent service delivery and rapid deployment across multiple manufacturing sites.
Why Canon for Pharmaceutical In-Plant Logistics?
With over 40 years of experience in managed services and in-plant logistics, Canon Business Process Services has a strong track record of supporting leading life sciences companies in achieving operational excellence. Canon has deep domain knowledge in the pharmaceutical sector and a track record of helping the world’s leading life sciences companies achieve operational excellence. In addition, you can count on Canon for:
All Canon solutions are designed with regulatory compliance at the core, supported by advanced reporting, audit trail documentation, and an unrelenting focus on GMP/GDP standards.
From initial business assessment to solution roll-out and continuous process optimization, Canon partners closely with your team to deliver results that align with your strategic goals.
Our embedded operational teams and proven methodologies ensure seamless integration across your network—backed by Canon’s global strength and reliability.
With a culture rooted in Lean practices, Canon experts proactively identify process enhancements, cost savings, and risk reduction opportunities throughout your supply chain.
Creating Inventory and Materials Management Efficiencies for Manufacturer
A health sciences manufacturer partnered with Canon to provide onsite internal logistics support to solve logistics challenges including materials handling, inventory control, shipping, and receiving. Canon assisted the company during the opening of their new warehouse by designing and optimizing the plant's operations. This allowed the company to begin manufacturing and distributing its scientific device product as well as the temperature sensitive chemicals needed for its operation. Canon receives, stores, and maintains the inventory control system for 800 components of the scientific device before fulfilling the shipment of the finalized product.
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