Open AccessOutsourcing Strategies – Future Trends?
Author(s) -
G. A. Pullan
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.1998.269
Subject(s) - outsourcing , business , production (economics) , industrial organization , pharmaceutical industry , marketing , economics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , macroeconomics
Outsourcing production of bulk active ingredient manufacture has recently been a growing trend amongst many pharmaceutical companies. To consider how the trend might develop, one needs to consider the factors that have driven outsourcing and the critical role of the custom synthesis industry in delivering expectations.