CASE STUDIES
Handling Huge Uptick in Demand With Flexible Sourcing and JIT Labeling
Client Overview
Our client is a Biotech company developing a broad pipeline of drug candidates that are optimized to treat patients with cancer and autoimmune disorders. This company uses its unique protein engineering platform and has more than 20 programs in clinical testing.
Challenge
They needed a fast and flexible solution to handle a sudden uptick in demand with a big number of patients recruited for a featured trial. The comparator was a high-cost immunotherapy drug that needed to be sourced in larger quantities and shipped to multiple sites across the US.
The biggest challenge to overcome became procuring bulk drug quantities, coupled with timely labeling and distribution, to support the unexpected uptick in patients. Most companies only offer batch production labeling and release that takes several months’ time, and they were against the clock to continue their featured trial without significant delays. Without moving this project to Myonex from another packager, they would have needed to pause recruitment for 3 to 4 months in order to procure and label the immunotherapy drug supply.
The Myonex Solution
Myonex’s long-time, reliable experience in drug sourcing secured the right amount of high-cost immunotherapy drugs at the right time. The JIT (just in time) labeling turnaround ensured the quick supply of the drugs needed to the sites and patients to handle the increase without any delays.
Implementation—getting it done on time
Myonex’s experienced Clinical Trial Drug Sourcing team and the Packaging & Distribution team worked seamlessly together to receive, release, label and ship to multiple sites in the US the same day – saving our client valuable time and money. The flexible and reliable sourcing of required quantities needed at specific points in time, synchronized with the larger patient enrollment, ensured that only the comparators needed had been purchased.
With the right amount of comparators sourced, labeled, released and shipped in time, our client’s trial continued on time. Working with another vendor, the trial would have been paused 3-4 months.
The Results:
Two important successes were achieved because of this joint project from the Biotech and Myonex:
1. Money saved: Thanks to the long-time experience in drug sourcing, Myonex procured only the comparators needed for labeling and shipping, saving the company money by reducing unused, high-cost drug-waste.
2. No delays in ongoing trial: Instead of waiting several months for a packaging run, Myonex’s JIT labeling with the instant quality release secured very fast turn-around times–same day or next day–allowing them to continue their trial without any delays.
Conclusion:
Myonex’s expertise and flexible approach ensured this Biotech did not waste valuable months and could continue a featured trial without any delays. Thanks to great manufacturer relations, Myonex was able to only source the high-cost comparators needed, labeled and released them just in time to ship the same day or next day.
Thanks to the joint efforts, the Biotech was able to save time and money with no expensive bulk-purchase, no time consuming batch record labeling and no waste.
