Global Biopharmaceutical Company Recognizes Annual Operational Savings of $60,000 per Facility with Avetta
公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- Avetta
技术栈
- Lotus Notes
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
- Customer Satisfaction
技术
- 平台即服务 (PaaS) - 连接平台
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据交换与集成
适用行业
- 药品
- 医疗保健和医院
适用功能
- 质量保证
- 采购
用例
- 监管合规监控
- 供应链可见性(SCV)
- 远程资产管理
服务
- 系统集成
- 培训
关于客户
The customer is a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company with a workforce of 28,000 employees. The company is committed to maintaining strict internal safety standards, referred to as “Global Technical Standards,” to ensure that all contractors are properly trained, certified, and reviewed according to OSHA standards. The company undertakes a wide range of jobs, including asbestos abatement, lead abatement, confined space work, excavations, fall protection, crane lifts, and helicopter lifts. The Senior Safety Construction Specialist at the company is responsible for ensuring that all contractors meet these stringent safety requirements. However, managing several hundred contractors at a single site had become an overwhelming task, leading to the need for a more efficient and cost-effective approach to supply chain risk management.
挑战
Faced with a ballooning administrative workload, combined with the refusal to compromise his company’s strict safety standards, a Senior Safety Construction Specialist in North Chicago had a decision to make: hire more staff and absorb the cost of salary, health care insurance, and training—or look for a more efficient and cost-effective approach to de-risking his supply chain. His company, a global, research-based biopharmaceutical company with a workforce of 28,000, has set a strict internal safety initiative referred to as “Global Technical Standards.” It’s the job of this Senior Safety Construction Specialist to make sure contractors at his facility are properly trained, certified, and reviewed, according to OSHA standards. But with several hundred contractors working at his site alone, managing them all and meeting company goals had become too much work for one person. The problem wasn’t just the amount of time required to execute the reviews. Internal staff had no automated way of knowing who was due for review, whose review was late, or who hadn’t been reviewed yet. There was no trigger in place that would tell them when contractors were up for review. The company did have an electronic database of information for contractors, but it did not provide detailed information, such as certifications or training—not even an indication of whether the contractor was qualified to perform work onsite. With overflowing file cabinets, an increasingly complex supply chain, and the ever-present concern over contractor risk, something needed to change.
解决方案
Recognizing that without an automated system he could not comply with the company’s Global Technical Standards, the Senior Safety Construction Specialist approached his managers and suggested they look into a third-party vendor to assist with supply chain risk management. They contacted three different companies, including Avetta, and had each present before the evaluation team, which included individuals from contract administration and directors from other departments outside of Health & Safety. After the vetting process, the team was unanimous in its selection. Avetta offered a bit more than the others, with an easy-to-navigate application and a straightforward flag system. Today, staff members in the purchasing department log in to Avetta, check whether a contractor is in the system, and then verify the contractor’s flag color. If a prospective contractor is not in the Avetta system, the buyer will let them know they have to enroll, comply with the program, and send in their EHS information. Contractors have been complying, and the process of issuing POs is easier than ever. Contractors, in some cases, are leveraging the system to make changes or improvements in their business practices. The critical task of checking on contractors is now easier and faster. The Avetta dashboard is especially convenient and instantly conveys high-level information. Staff can see everything that’s going on, check the pie chart at the top of the home screen, and see which contractors are green, yellow, and red. They can also look at documents such as confined space programs or OSHA 300 logs easily.
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