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New Study on the Challenges and Opportunities of China's Pharmaceutical Industry Supply Chain

(TEMPE, Arizona) August 9, 2010 — CAPS Research has released a new focus study that closely examines the pharmaceutical supply chain in China and offers insights into some of its unique characteristics. The study focuses on a wide range of topics that address the potential challenges and opportunities for the pharmaceutical supply chain's distribution networks and information systems, to the impacts of new Chinese healthcare reform plans.

The authors point out that China is becoming one of the largest pharmaceutical markets in the world. The authors also note that the while the pharmaceutical industry is experiencing explosive growth, the supply chains remain complex and inefficient. Problems include lack of nationwide, large-scale distribution networks; industry fragmentation and too many small pharmaceutical manufacturers; lack supply chain integration; poor IT systems, and irregular activities. It is expected that the new healthcare reform plan announced last year will offer both opportunities and challenges, and will have a tremendous impact throughout China's pharmaceutical supply chain.

The focus study, authored by JianQiang Hu, Ph.D., and Yue Dai, Ph.D., Fudan University; and Kevin Gu, Ph.D., Jointown Pharmaceutical Group Co., is based on visits and interviews with 18 Chinese pharmaceutical companies. The interviews focused on production, quality control, research and development, outsourcing, exportation, the foreign investment environment, and the new healthcare reform plan in China.

For more information on this focus study contact CAPS Research at research@capsresearch.org.

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CAPS Research is a nonprofit research organization founded in 1986 to provide leading research to our strategic-minded corporate sponsors and to the public. Our mission is to work in partnership with a global network of executives and academics for the discovery and dissemination of strategic supply management knowledge and best practices. CAPS Research is jointly sponsored by the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, the Institute for Supply Management™, and Global 1000/Fortune 500-size organizations.

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