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Often, pharmaceutical companies have reached outside their organization to contract service providers for help with discovery, development, and manufacturing. Others tap into their own in-house resources for support. Which is the better process? The short answer is there’s no right way, just your way.
Insourcing
The benefit of insourcing is that you’re consistently dealing with a trusted service partner embedded within your facility. Your work is kept in house, communications are face-to-face and happen in real time. Not to mention all work is performed within your IT infrastructure using all your equipment and resources.
Advantages include:
Full control over the process
Immediate access to results
Reduced time managing third parties
Optimized lab space
Timely communication of project deliverables
Outsourcing
Some labs benefit from the flexibility, expertise, and technology that comes with outsourcing approaches. Of course, hidden costs are always associated with third parties – it’s less costly to manage a partner embedded in your organization than one located across the globe.
Outsourcing a contract research organization (CRO) or contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMO) is best when you’re working with:
Routine established workflows
Noncomplex samples
Less time-sensitive results
3 Types of Insourcing Models
If you decide to insource, there are several models to choose from, including staffing agencies, managed services, and lab as a service (LaaS).
Staffing agencies
This option provides qualified personnel for short-term needs to augment your staff for a specific project or find talent with a specific skill or area of expertise.
Managed services
In this model, the service partner brings its own people to provide services to achieve a guaranteed outcome – number of samples or experiments per day, for example.
Lab as a Service
LaaS brings everything required to deliver on the service-level agreement – from people and processes to consumables and instruments.
Whether you decide to insource or outsource, having a single vendor who understands your organization – from the management of assets to the oversight of IT to the harmonization of standards – is the key to success. A single-vendor solution simplifies processes when it comes to creating a single point of contact to manage oversight and communication.
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