Accelerating Scientist-to-Supplier Engagement by a Full Year Through Outsourcing Non-Core Supplier Onboarding

• Examining why supplier onboarding is such a costly and time-consuming bottleneck across specialty labs, genomics and companion diagnostics, to identify where delays really originate
• Walking through how a category management model, supported by a separate contracting organization, created the structure to outsource onboarding for non-core suppliers
• Sharing the results and lessons learned from cutting the onboarding cycle by one year, to help peers replicate the approach within their own R&D procurement teams

Speakers:

Rocio Salazar

Associate Director - Global Clinical Procurement & Genomics, Clinical Testing & Precision Medicine

AstraZeneca