Supply chain management practice in Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Limited

Abstract

This report focused on the supply chain management practice by Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Limited. SK+F has become a leading pharmaceutical company through good management practice, expert professionals, good working environment and delivering quality medicine to its end consumers. This report starts with the history of SK+F, company structure and hierarchy, products. Industry analysis was done considering PESTEL and Porter’s Five Forces model. There are some challenges this industry, for example, supplier has more bargaining power than buyers, threat of substitute product is also existing. On the other hand, political, economic, sociological, technological, environmental and legal condition of Bangladesh is favorable for Pharmaceutical industry. SK+F can take advantages from these factors. Brief discussion was done about the commercial department’s structure and responsibility, spend analysis of commercial department, segmentation of procurement process based on Karljic Matrix and supply chain network. Finally, based on the overall analysis recommendation was suggested for betterment of the company.