Being more like Coca-Cola takes days out of GSK's pharma supply chain

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By Gavin van Marle

13/04/2012

Who would have thought it? Pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline revealed in an earnings call a few weeks ago that it has been re-modelling its supply chain to be more like that of an FMCG manufacturer – locating production facilities closer to end markets and utilising spare capacity in underused plants has shortened time of goods in logistics’ and taken out costs.

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