By Shreeya Mishra
Pharmaceutical production primarily focuses on developing and manufacturing prescription medications and healthcare products essential worldwide. Utilizing analytics to analyze data allows industry leaders to identify effective marketing strategies, make quicker decisions, reduce operational costs, and stay competitive in an increasingly data-driven environment. Business Intelligence involves integrating analytical solutions and data visualization tools into software interfaces to enhance data understanding and usability. By incorporating BI, organizations can seamlessly integrate analytics into daily operations, decrease reliance on IT teams, and access valuable insights to enhance organizational and workforce performance.
It is crucial to integrate Business Intelligence (BI) into your current software application for pharmaceutical production analysis. This integration will grant users convenient access to important metrics.
Enhanced productivity
Embedded analytics allows continuous monitoring of key productivity metrics, including average daily prescriptions filled, average sales per transaction, inventory turnover, and transaction frequency. These insights enable managers to assess factory productivity and product performance. With this data, production managers can strategize to enhance output and optimize workforce utilization to meet market demands more accurately, ultimately boosting revenue and enhancing the company's brand value.
Enhances Data Operqation
Integrating analytics into your software application can enhance data visualization and analysis capabilities. By examining key metrics and KPIs, such as fast-moving medicines and inventory trends, you can gain valuable insights into seasonal fluctuations in demand. Analyzing historical data enables manufacturers to predict future demand accurately, optimizing resource allocation for product production. This data-driven approach also guides targeted marketing strategies, like promoting allergy medicine in regions experiencing high pollen counts. Furthermore, insights from analytics can streamline distribution processes, enhancing overall operational efficiency for your company.
Enhanced Precision in Decision-Making
Incorporating analytics within the pharmaceutical sector improves collaboration and decision-making in the medicine manufacturing process. It enables company and team leaders to interact with a variety of stakeholders, including disease control scientists, medicine research teams, government regulators, and others, facilitating the exchange of ideas and information that ultimately enhances the quality of medicines. The visual representations provided by an analytical dashboard simplify the communication and comprehension of exchanged information. The seamless integration of external data sources enhances the accuracy of projected outcomes, facilitates the identification of industry trends, and streamlines collaboration. Industry leaders can confidently make decisions regarding development, supply and demand, and organizational priorities, while research team leaders are empowered to identify process inefficiencies and implement corrective measures promptly.
Enhanced Revenue
Incorporating analytics in the pharmaceutical industry facilitates monitoring of expenses, enabling finance departments to gain valuable insights for more effective budgeting and revenue tracking. In the event of a decline in industry returns, finance managers can promptly alert departmental heads, prompting a thorough examination of metrics to identify and address underlying issues.
The Pharmaceuticals Production Analysis Dashboard provides a comprehensive summary of crucial KPIs in medicine manufacturing processes, including LAR, PQCR, lead time, and manufacturing costs. It also offers insights into overall production quality and the comparison of produced medicines with past quarter targets. Key metrics featured in the dashboard include lead time of medicines (in hours), quality metrics, production quality, manufacturing costs, and a summary of medicine production versus target quantities.
Medicine Production Lead Time (in hours)
The lead time of medicine metric measures the total hours required to manufacture a medicine. This metric allows for comparison of time spent on planning, manufacturing, and inspection activities in the past month.
Quality Metrics
Assessing a medicine's quality and the manufacturer's state of quality can be achieved through the Lot Acceptance Rate (LAR) and Product Quality Complaint Rate (PQCR). Takt time is the rate at which a finished product must be completed to meet customer demand.
Production Quality
Evaluation of production quality involves comparing the total number of units produced against those that have not passed quality testing. This metric allows manufacturers to assess the extent to which quality standards are being met.
Manufacturing Cost
The cost breakdown for each medication includes expenses during the development, preclinical, and clinical stages. The clinical phase, in particular, involves various tests to guarantee the quality of the medication before it is ready for market release.
Production vs. target
Production vs. Target Compare the number of medicine units produced with the set target for the quarter. The grand total represents the sum of all medicine units produced across all quarters.
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