OUR Intelligent biopharma series explores the ways artificial intelligence (AI) can impact the biopharma value chain. The first two reports, Intelligent drug discovery and Intelligent clinical trials, highlight the potential of AI to accelerate the development of new drugs. This report explores the digital transformation of the biopharma supply chain and how AI can help improve value and manage risks more effectively. Given the unprecedented challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the report also considers the role that AI can play in helping the supply chain to respond, recover and thrive.
The rationale for transforming the biopharma supply chain
The biopharma supply chain involves a complex set of steps that are required to produce a drug, from sourcing and supply of materials, through manufacturing and distribution, to delivery to the consumer. This forms a golden thread between the discovery of new therapies and patients receiving them (figure 1).1
About the Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions
The Deloitte Centre for Health Solutions (CfHS) is the research arm of Deloitte’s Life Sciences and Health Care practices. We combine creative thinking, robust research and our industry experience to develop evidence-based perspectives on some of the biggest and most challenging issues to help our clients to transform themselves and, importantly, benefit the patient. At a pivotal and challenging time for the industry, we use our research to encourage collaboration across all stakeholders, from pharmaceuticals and medical innovation, health care management and reform, to the patient and health care consumer.
