Rocio Salazar
Associate Director - Global Clinical Procurement & Genomics, Clinical Testing & Precision Medicine AstraZeneca
Seminars
Thursday 11th March 2027
Accelerating Scientist-to-Supplier Engagement by a Full Year Through Outsourcing Non-Core Supplier Onboarding
9:00 am
- 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
