The symposium will include three presentations. The first will relate key findings from a Tufts CSDD study on the global supply chain market. The findings examine the challenges to management of the supply chain in several areas and explores strategies that supply professionals use to optimize management of the supply chain. The second will examine the role of communication and use of best practices in the relationships between supply chain providers and sponsors. The third will include a discussion of a systemic approach for monitoring, warning, and forecasting systems (including mid-study supply simulations using real study data) and its impact upon supply chain efficiencies and costs.

Learning Objectives:
Discuss the top challenges to managing the supply chain and key strategies that optimize supply chain management
Examine how effective communication and use of best practices in sponsor-vendor relationships can maximize supply chain efficiency
Describe how supply chain costs within global trials can be optimized and driven by use of IVRS.