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Product development in the life sciences industry is marked by high research & development costs, long lead times, and low success rates of profitable product launches. With these challenges, life sciences companies must very carefully decide in which products to invest and ultimately take to market. This involves eliciting input from the right people and properly accounting for risks very early in the planning and analysis phase. In addition to individual products, the portfolio as a whole must be carefully planned to balance risk and reward. Without the proper upfront planning and analysis, even the most attractive opportunities can quickly become unprofitable cost sinks.

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The Vanguard System™ is a comprehensive business solution for improving the quality, reliability, and speed of management decisions. It does this by helping you Collaborate with colleagues on important plans, Analyze alternatives using state-of-the-art modeling and simulation techniques, Automate routine decisions using expert system technology, and Improve overall management effectiveness by adding structure to a normally chaotic process.

Business improvement is all about working smarter. Vanguard brings together the people, analytics, and systems required to help your business operate intelligently.

Here are just a few of the ways Vanguard supports the life sciences industry:

  • Product development: Accurately estimate lifecycle profitability and forecast adoption across all channels.
  • Demand forecasting: Predict demand for final products and raw materials, even when historical data is scarce.
  • Mix / Portfolio analysis: Optimize product portfolios, pricing, and promotions.
  • Risk analysis: Vanguard is the first risk analysis solution that leverages the combined power of your collective intelligence and our proven analytical methods to give you complete risk-based visibility and insight into your business.
  • Strategic planning: Vanguard fully quantifies the financial and operational impacts of strategic decisions at all levels of the organization.
  • Sales and operations planning (S&OP): Enable real-time collaboration between Marketing & Sales and Operations to ensure production capacity can profitably support customer demand (and vice versa).
  • Surveys and research: Know your market and understand your customers' needs, wishes, and opinions using online surveys.

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