✨Enhancing Procurement in Life Sciences✨ Procurement in the life sciences sector is navigating a complex landscape characterised by increasing macroeconomic pressures, accelerated and diverse scientific advancements, stringent regulation, and significant supply chain risks. How does your organisation measure up? Procurement in life sciences is integral to enabling scientific innovation, ensuring resilience, and meeting the sector’s unique challenges. Whether it's navigating compliance, implementing tech enabled solutions, advancing sustainability, or enhancing supply chain operations, understanding where you stand is the first step toward impactful improvements. By participating in our Annual Procurement Survey, you’ll: 🔬 Benchmark your procurement capabilities against peers in life sciences 📊 Gain insights to drive improvements in risk management and operational efficiency 💡 Receive expert recommendations to navigate sector-specific challenges Take part in the survey today and receive a detailed report to support your procurement strategy. 👉 https://lnkd.in/eh2Frnue #procurement #procurementtransformation #annualsurvey #procurementresearch #cips #LifeSciences #ProcurementInnovation #SupplyChainResilience #Sustainability Allison Ford-Langstaff (FCIPS) Paul Ireland
4C Life Sciences
Business Consulting and Services
Commercial, supply chain and operations consultancy helping achieve wellbeing for patients, consumers & society.
About us
Life sciences companies continue to operate in a highly competitive and rapidly evolving industry, grappling with a wide range of commercial and operational pressures. They are not immune to the global challenges of the times, including inflation, skills gaps, trade and security issues, supply chain shocks and above all, the challenge of sustainability and climate change. We define strategy. We design and implement new operating models. We support operational delivery of outcomes whether linked to capability, efficiency, cost or risk. We have a rigorous focus on impact, quality and value – for our clients, their partners and their patients. Using our expertise, market understanding and commercial acumen, we help life sciences companies make the right decisions about the capabilities they need to develop, how or when to outsource, and how best to collaborate with partners, stakeholders and suppliers at every stage. Our clients operate at every scale, at all stages of growth, from start-up to global operator. They include leading multi-national research, pharmaceutical, diagnostic, instrumentation, med-tech and biotech players. From ideation and conception through to implementation and results, we provide flexible, informed, cost-effective support, based on decades of individual and collective industry experience, leavened with learning and insight from the other sectors in which 4C operates.
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https://www.4cassociates.com/industries/life-sciences/
External link for 4C Life Sciences
- Industry
- Business Consulting and Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- London
- Founded
- 2000
- Specialties
- life science, biopharma, consulting, commercial, supply chain, operations, strategy, procurement, sustainability, cost reduction, business transformation, clinical research outsourcing, and service delivery
Updates
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🎃 It's SCARY how many cost opportunities might be left on the table, perhaps the internal Procurement team is maxed out and can’t spend time on a re-set, or maybe there are some temporary gaps in the team coverage…. Whatever the reason, 4C Associates is on hand to augment your procurement team. We can run a rapid diagnostic on your 3rd party spend, benchmark against best practices, validate cost-out initiatives to provide a workable pipeline, and then support implementation with you, to impact your bottom line…. 👻 WHO YOU GONNA CALL???👻 #Paul Bestford, #Rob Aitchison #4C Life Sciences #4C Associates Happy Hallowe’en!! 🦇 💀 🧙🏻♂️
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We’re excited to be collaborating with Mayet on some crucial changes to clinical trial outsourcing. Our work together is focused on the latest ICH GCP Revision 3 updates, particularly those impacting service provider oversight and sponsor risk management. Mayet’s Total Cost of Risk (TCOR) framework is helping to transform how risks are understood and managed in vendor oversight, making trials more efficient and cost-effective. At 4C, we’re contributing our expertise in creating strategic, cost-saving R&D outsourcing methodologies that improve quality, speed up development and mitigate risk through proactive planning. Look out for some valuable upcoming content that’s packed with insights—you won’t want to miss what’s coming next! #clinicaltrial #4C #Mayet #vendor #costtransformation
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🔬 Poll Time! 🔬 We want to hear from you! With 2025 planning well underway across the industry what is number one on your wish list for Clinical Development Outsourcing? What is your priority for next year? The overriding trend we are hearing from clients is the need to deliver clinical trials much much faster and total costs need to be much more under control. #Clinical #Outsourcing #Budget #Lifesciences
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We are looking forward to this year's DPW Conference in Amsterdam! Do not hesitate to reach out to our colleague Paul Bestford if you see him around. #Procurement #DigitalProcurement #Conference #DPWAmsterdam
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🌍In a world where some companies are enforcing returning to the office, 4C not only offers the flexibility of working from home, but in specific circumstances also from abroad for short periods. You can read below the experience of our colleague Melisa Maurino Reyes: “Today I’m not in my regular set up, as I’m working remotely from my family home in Seville! It’s been an incredible experience balancing work and quality time with my family and partner. In a time when many companies are mandating a return to the office, I’m especially grateful to be with a company that not only offers work-from-home flexibility, but also supports employees with navigating the various compliance considerations associated to, where feasible, work remotely from abroad. This support has truly enriched my work-life balance and allowed me to create unforgettable memories with my loved ones while still allowing me to stay productive and engaged. A huge shoutout to my amazing team at 4C, for their forward-thinking approach and for making this possible. Grateful for the opportunity to be back home while staying productive and connected.” #RemoteWork #Grateful #FamilyTime #4C
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Delighted that Rob Aitchison will be the Steering Group Chair for the 2025 PCMG Clinical Outsourcing Community Annual Assembly. As our Head of R&D Outsourcing Advisory, Rob partners with commercial and operational leaders to develop new ways to leverage the CRO market and to build new supply chains to accelerate and derisk R&D portfolio realisation. From molecule to medicine, 4C partners with the most innovative biopharma advisors and providers to face these challenges and support the global life sciences industry’s mission to achieve greater wellbeing for patients, consumers and society in its widest sense. Learn more about our services 👉 https://lnkd.in/eCwDuSxX #clinicaltrials #clinicalresearch #clinicaloperations #PCMG #PCMG25
Meet the volunteers who are already hard at work planning PCMG25...... It takes months of planning to bring you the PCMG Clinical Outsourcing Community Annual Assembly. The Assembly Steering Group are already hard at work planning for 2025 and so it is a good time to introduce them to you. We start with the Steering Group Chair, Rob Aitchison. Rob is a Director at 4C Associates, a specialist consultancy company, where he is Head of R&D Outsourcing Advisory. In this area 4C is partnering with commercial and operational leaders to develop new ways to leverage the CRO market and to build new supply chains to accelerate and derisk R&D portfolio realisation. He has over 25 years’ experience in pharmaceutical development and outsourcing. PCMG25 will take place in Malaga, Spain from the 10-12 June next year. Find out more and register your interest here: https://pcmgassembly.org/ Tara Garavan, Gill Slater, Richard Scaife, David Davies, Olena Goloborodko #clinicaltrials #clinicalresearch #clinicaloperations #PCMG #PCMG25
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🔬 Poll Time! 🔬 We want to hear from you! What do you think is the biggest challenge you’re facing in your supply chain? Recent industry trends highlight several key areas impacting the life sciences supply chain, including the increasing adoption of Generative AI to expedite drug discovery and reduce costs, rising pricing pressures, and the need for advanced manufacturing techniques to meet profitability. Your insights are invaluable to us. Please vote and share your thoughts in the comments below! Let’s spark a conversation and explore potential solutions together. #Lifesciences #SupplyChain #Poll #IndustryChallenges #Innovation #4C
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🌟 Welcome to the Team! 🌟 We are thrilled to welcome Melisa Maurino Reyes to our Life Sciences team at 4C Associates! 🎉 Melisa brings a wealth of experience in supply chain and operations transformation across the pharma and medical devices industries, and we are excited to see the incredible contributions she will make to our projects and initiatives. Her passion for process improvement and large-scale transformations aligns perfectly with our mission to innovate, excel and make an impact in the life sciences sector. Please join us in giving Melisa a warm welcome and wishing her great success in their new role. We look forward to achieving new milestones together! #Welcome #NewTeamMember #Lifesciences #Innovation #TeamGrowth #4C #Operations
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Don't miss Will Sillar, Partner and Head of Life Sciences, at the Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE event in London! Join him there or reach out on LinkedIn. #procurement #supplychain #supplychainmanagement #london #events #networking #4CAssociates
Join Will Sillar, Katy Gallagher and Robin Agarwal on September 24th and 25th at Procurement & Supply Chain LIVE event in London! We're excited to connect with industry leaders, showcase our expertise, and discuss the latest trends and challenges in the procurement and supply chain landscape. #procurement #supplychain #supplychainmanagement #london #events #networking #4CAssociates
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