POD in the Pharmaceutical Market

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POD in the Pharmaceutical Market

• Case Study Orifarm DK

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Intellidoc A/S

• We provide professionel services and tools as an
  efficient link between Print Buyers and Print
  Service Providers
• Since 1999 we have invested more than 3 mill.
  Euro or 4.5 mill. in web application modules
  and business models

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Benefits for Print Buyers

• Print procurement and print logistics becomes an
  integrated part of the supply chain
• Reduced costs, through waste reduction
• Reduced time to market
• Consistency in Corporate Identity and Branding
• Automated and Lean processes
• 24/7/365
• No special requirement from IT

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Benefits to the Print Service Provider

• Increase customer retention
• Reduction of total costs per job
• Automated and efficient  order workflow
• Faster turn around per job
• Increased used of standards, no print problems
  with files
• Profitable POD production
• PSP becomes need to have, instead of nice to have
• Price per impression becomes less important

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Lean POD Production of Pharmaceutical Labels

• What is "Lean"?
• Definition
• Lean Manufacturing is the production of goods
  using less of everything compared to traditional
  mass production less waste, less human effort,
  less manufacturing space, less investment in
  tools, less inventory, and less engineering time
  to develop a new product

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What is Print On Demand?

• It is a inventory document strategy
  implemented to improve the return on investment
  of a business by reducing inprogress inventory
  and its associated costs

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Orifarm A/S Denmark

• Biggist supplier of medicine in Denmark
• Second largest parallel importer of medicine in
  Europe
• 4000 products
• Turnover 500 mill. Euro
• Production in Denmark, Germany and Czech-republic

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History

• POD of PILs Patient Instruction Leaflets started
  4 years ago
• Savings 400.000 Euro per year for the print buyer
  Orifarm
• 2000 jobs per months for the PSP HTOdense equal
  to 20 mill. clicks per year at 5 euro cents per
  PIL ( 2 clicks)

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New  Challenge POD of Labels!

• Process
• Analysis
• Preparation and production of report
• Proposal of possible solution
• Return on Investment
• Final recommendation
• Implementation plan

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Feasibility Study

• Test of new material, laser die cutting and
  brailles
• Identify PSP for digital printing of labels

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Contract

• Functional specification
• Deliverables
• Implementation plan
• Project team

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The Challenge

• From 1450 orders a year to POD of 150 orders a
  day , 22 mill. labels
• Day to day delivery instead of every 4-6 weeks
• Digital printing of "window labels"
• Min. the same quality as Offset and Flexo
  printing
• No dies for cutting the final labels
• Reduce the need for printing with white toner
• No warehousing, JIT/POD delivery
• Increase use of barcodes for track and trace
• Runlength down to 10-20 labels
• Support of 4 colour printing plus  Phantone
• Additional printing of LOT No. and Expiring dates
  in each print run
• Compliance with QA and GMP processes
• Total savings min 20

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Solution

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Benefits

• Savings per year for Orifarm A/S 1-1.5 mill. Euro
• Print Service Provider (Indigo 4500) 3 year
  contract min.1 mill. Euro per year turnover
• Net Profit 20 for PSP