This document discusses Koye Pharmaceuticals, a customer-centric company incorporated in 2013 that develops and delivers innovative science-based solutions. It produces various drugs like anti-inflammatory, pregnancy-related, respiratory, and anti-bacterial medicines. The company has adopted Just-in-Time and Six Sigma approaches to eliminate waste, reduce inventory and cycle times, improve quality, and minimize errors and variability. Specifically, it focuses on key drug categories, identifies unnecessary procedures, prevents inventory exhaustion, and reduces supplier inefficiencies using Just-in-Time. It also uses Six Sigma's RDMAIC methodology to analyze and improve business processes, maintain dosage uniformity, and integrate IT systems like tablets.

1. PHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRY
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2. THE COMPANY
 Derives its name from the seed of a mango – Koye
 Incorporated in 2013
 Services the Primary Specialty Care areas
 Customer-centric organization
 Develops and delivers innovative science based solutions to
customers
 Sales force of over 300

3. THE PRODUCTS
 Day to day well-being medicines
 Some product categories:
 Anti-inflammatory drugs
 Pregnancy related drugs
 Respiratory disorder drugs
 Nutrition deficiency drugs
 Anti-bacterial drugs

4. JUST-IN-TIME
 Lean manufacturing technique - eliminate waste in the supply chain
 Varied mix of drugs manufactured - care and sophistication required
 Less inventory - resources brought in close to start of production
 Short setup time
 Even flow of products through factory
 High level of process control and reliability

5. COMPANY’S ADAPTATION OF
JUST-IN-TIME
 Company in nascent stage with well established players - JIT is best fit
 Focus on a set of medicine categories
 Reduction of throughput time by identifying and
eliminating unnecessary procedures
 Prevention of finished - product inventory exhaustion
 Reduction of supplier inefficiencies

6. SIX SIGMA
 Improves quality of output of a process
 Minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes
 Reduction of process cycle time
 Improved product quality
 Shorter delivery time
 Reduction of waste and errors

7. COMPANY’S ADAPTATION OF
SIX SIGMA
 RDMAIC methodology to improve existing business process
 Recognize the right problem
 Define the system
 Measure key aspects of current process and collect relevant data
 Analyze data to investigate and verify cause-and-effect
relationships
 Improve current process based on data analysis
 Control future state process to ensure correction or deviations from
target

8. COMPANY’S ADAPTATION OF
SIX SIGMA (contd.)
 Lean manufacturing
 Maintaining dosage uniformity
 Quality by Design (QbD) implementation
 Positioning & control of process capability and cost
 Integration of IT infrastructure – use of HP tablets
 Doctor detailing
 Daily call reporting
 Expense reporting
 Checking sales reports