If you run supply chain, quality, or manufacturing operations for a sponsor or you’re the CMO or CDMO on the other end of that relationship you’ve likely invested in a planning tool already. Blue Yonder. SAP Ariba. Maybe a serialization layer like TraceLink on top. The dashboards look complete. The forecast is shared. Everyone nods in the S&OP meeting.
And yet tech transfer packages still move by email. Deviations still sit in someone’s inbox for three days before the right person notices. The batch record that everyone needs to see lives in a system only one side can open.
That gap isn’t a training problem or an adoption problem. It’s an architecture problem: these platforms were built to plan and procure, not to collaborate on the manufacturing and quality data that actually determines whether a batch ships on time.