Workshop A
09:00 – 11:30am

Embracing Process  Improvement In the Pharmaceutical, Biotech & Medical Device Industry – Strategies for Identifying and Eliminating Waste Under a Highly Regulated Setting

Workshop B
13:30 - 15:00pm

Achieving an Effective and Sustainable Cost Reduction through A Leaner Operating System

Sunil Chandiramani, Director of Lean Six Sigma, Merck Sharpe and Dohme

08:30

Registration

09:00

Chairman’s Welcome Address and Conference Opening

09:15

Keynote Address: Surviving and Thriving the Recession: Integrating Necessary Methodologies, Infrastructure and Quality Improvement Tools Valuable for Sustainable Performance

• Reviewing the fundamentals of reliable, predictable, and repeatable breakthroughs by identifying the systematic approaches to gaining order-of-magnitude return on investment
• Identifying the list of design parameters that may impact performance and how to optimize that performance in the presence of noise variables
• Identifying best practices involved in achieving systematic breakthroughs on a continuous basis

Edward Ambramowich, Lean Advisor, Shell

10:00

Redefining Business Objectives: Using Value Chain Transformation to Identify Short, Medium and Long Term Priorities

Rhenu Bhullar, Global Vice President – Pharmaceutical Healthcare, Frost & Sullivan

10:30

Networking Coffee Break

11:00

Leadership in Times of Crisis: Leading the Paradigm Shift in Your Organisation to Optimise Organisational Structure and Process

• Critically assessing the role of management in a change environment
• Moving project forward with effective top down management
• Identifying structural and organisational changes to manage change resistance

Sanjay Chavan, Vice President, Sanofi-Aventis

11:30

Managing Change and Transition: Organizational Change Management Processes and Workforce Change Management Model

William Lee, Planning and Operations Management Group, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology

12:00

Networking Lunch Break

13:30

Selecting the Right Approach for the Right Challenge at the Right Time and Aligning it to Your Corporate Strategy

Ray Collyer, Senior Consultant, Seerpharma Singapore Pte. Ltd.

14:00

Developing  A Self-Sustainment and Well Defined Exit Strategy in the Pre-Execution Phase for A Sustainable and Lucrative Returns

Graham Cockerton, Director - Six Sigma, Global Coordination Regional Project Lead – IMGlobal, Ingram Micro

14:45

Case Study: Drawing the Success of Manufacturing Industries in Performance Improvement

• How Value Management Has Successfully Combat the Non-Stop Manufacturing Reduction Challenges
• How to Achieve Continuous Improvement Out of an Age Old Process
• Identifying Manufacturing Industry Best Practices

Sunil Chandiramani, Director of Lean Six Sigma, Merck Sharpe and Dohme

15:30

Networking Tea Break

16:00

Executive Panel Discussion: Today’s Answer, Tomorrow’s Breakthrough: Comparing Successful Models of the Yesterday and Today to Identify Possible Models for the  Future

Michael McGuiness, Head of Quality, Merc

16:30

Lean and Green: The Way Forward – Integrating Lean into Your Business Model to Achieve Exceptional Savings and For A Sustainable Performance

Reinhard Kroisenbrunner, Process Improvement, Support & Training Manager, DGF Singapore

17:00

End of Conference

Master Class A
08:30 - 12:30am

Reducing Marketing Time and Increasing Bottom Lines through Effective Improvement Tools for Controlled Products

• Why the interest now in applying these principles to sales and marketing and increasing revenues?
• How can these tools help deal with margin pressures in our industry?
• What is solution selling and how might it apply to the pharmaceutical industry?
• How might these tools be applied to make the sales force more effective and efficient?
• How might Six Sigma help to improve sales efficiency in pharmaceuticals?
• Voice of Customer

Edward Abramowich, Lean Advisor, Shell

Masterclass B
13:30 – 17:30pm

Value Chain Transformation
Identifying waste and opportunities across an end-to-end Value Chain requires a methodology that enables companies to step back, look at the big picture, and drill down to project-level opportunities. Team that are Identifying, prioritizing, and executing business improvement opportunities across the full Value Chain is an effort which holds high strategic and financial rewards.