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Welcome to the June 2009 issue of Pharmaceutical Technology Sourcing and Management, your information resource about the pharmaceutical supply chain. In this issue, we provide a financial review and outlook for the biotechnology industry and offer best practices in supply chain-management based on a recent review of top-performing companies.

GLOBAL FEATURE
Bleak Times for the Global Biotech Industry
by Patricia Van Arnum
The US biotechnology industry reached aggregate profitability for the first time ever in 2008, representing the only bright spot in an otherwise dismal year for biotechnology financing and performance.
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Supply Chain
Best Practices in the Supply Chain
by Patricia Van Arnum
Consumer-care products, electronics, and select industrial firms comprise AMR Research’s Supply Chain Top 25 for 2009, and they offer an opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry to examine best practices in supply-chain management.
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OUTSOURCING
Limits to Growth
by Jim Miller
A major CRO ventures further into proprietary drug development.
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Sourcing and Management’s Community of Experts
The panel consists of leading professionals involved in the synthesis, manufacture, and sourcing of active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates, and experts in formulation and dosage-form manufacturing. The community of experts lends its expertise to the eNewsletter by providing reviews of technical articles as well as offering perspectives on topics of relevance to pharmaceutical manufacturers and their suppliers.
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INDUSTRY EVENTS

For the full listing of calendar of events, see the Calendar of Events page at:
http://pharmtech.findpharma.com/events

>>July 2009

July 20–21
Green Pharma Summit
Philadelphia, PA

>>August 2009

Aug 11 –12
PharmTech Annual Conference
Philadelphia