The pharmaceutical industry being a knowledge-based industry, a key differentiator and a challenge for an organization is how well it can attract, recruit, develop, motivate and retain its people. With the changing global model, there is a strong need of a new band of human resources that have a combination of managerial and technical skills in the pharmaceutical sector. Human resources management has to develop innovative strategies to face the challenge of acquisition and retention of talent to sustain growth.

Since the Supply Chain Management has emerged as the new key to productivity and competitiveness of manufacturing and service enterprises, this workshop has been prepared to provide an overview on the activities covered by Supply Chain world. The importance of this area is shown by a significant spurt in research in the last five years and also proliferation of supply chain solutions (Enterprise resource planning systems) and the increase of supply chain companies.

Participant will gain a greater understanding of the financial objectives of their business and translate them into action in their corresponding functional area. In addition, participants will learn how to work out the financial implications of their day-to-day decisions which allows them to take decisions that have a positive impact on financial objectives of the business. This workshop will also help the attendees make better use of resources allocated to their divisions and sharpen financial skills and competencies for business success.