CASE STUDY Healthcare
Pharmaceutical benchmarking for an international management consulting firm
About the client Our client is an international management consulting firm with specialities across the healthcare and pharmaceutical domains.
Objective and scope In order to get a better understanding of the pharmaceutical sector and help their strategy team, our client wanted a pharmaceutical benchmarking study conducted across six countries, globally. This list included the US, the UK, India, Japan, France, and Sweden. They wanted a thorough grasp of the government tendering and procurement process at every stage of the pharmaceutical value chain - manufacturing, distribution, and retail. The client also requested a comparative analysis of the local production, licensing procedures, pharmaceutical market structure, e-sales, and active legal cases, including anti-competitive behavior, patent disputes, and so on, across the target nations.
Solutions and approach The firm approached Netscribes for its vast research coverage and experience in working with global companies across the pharmaceutical value chain.
Phase 1: Gathering relevant data based on publicly available resources To provide our client with detailed data on regulatory acts, and related documents published by the government and governmentaffiliated organizations, Netscribes conducted extensive secondary research to collect data from a variety of open and paid data sources, including the following: DRG group reports NHS reports House of Commons reports Thomson Reuters Practical Law Japan Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association International Trade Administration European Medicines Agency European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations US FDA Swedish Medical Product Agency, and other whitepapers and journals.w