Sourcing

Ingredient sourcing

A shared desk for pharmaceutical raw materials, APIs, and excipients sourced across time zones.

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  1. Ask

    Who was asked, and for what

  2. Sample

    What came back

  3. Decide

    The approval travels with it

A representative study of this kind of system. It describes the problem and the shape of a solution. It is not a published client result.

Who this is for. Sourcing teams who compare suppliers, samples, and offers across time zones, and lose the thread when a person is away.

The challenge

Sourcing spans suppliers, specifications, and countries. The latest offer, the sample, and the decision often sit with different people.

The solution

We treat each material as a case with a history: who was asked, what came back, and what was decided. The interface is built for people comparing options, not for a dashboard that only leadership opens.

Ask

Each material opens as a case: the specification, the people asked, and what was sent.

Sample

Offers and samples stay on the same case, so a comparison is not a hunt through mail.

Decide

When a source is chosen, the decision stays attached to the material. The next person can read it.

What gets built

  • A case file for each material and supplier conversation
  • Specification and sample history in one place
  • Status that travels with the request across teams
  • A clear handoff when a source is approved

What changes

Decisions stay attached to the material. A new person can pick up the thread without a long briefing.