Modern Site Operating Models For Complex Portfolios

Injectables, device-based treatments, and high-value biologics have raised the bar for packaging operations: portfolios are more complex, volumes are less predictable, and supply disruption is barely tolerated.

A functionally organized plant may struggle under those conditions. Pat Kelly, General Manager, describes how the Philadelphia site reorganized into three focus factories, each with its own leadership team, and how quality now sits inside each value stream while keeping independence at release. Also covered: warehousing built for higher pallet densities, a move from 8-hour to 12-hour shifts, and changeovers treated as engineered processes. Kelly closes with a view on making the model a repeatable standard.

Explore the specifics behind the approach.