AstraZeneca Improves with Lean Six Sigma


Posted by: meikah | 6 January 2010 | 8:02 pm

Lean Six Sigma at AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca, one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, is starting the year 2010 right. Already, it is working with Genpact to improve its processes and service.

According to an article on CIO, Genpact will be focusing on “processes affecting procure-to-pay, record-to-report and order-to-cash functions. It will implement Lean Six Sigma management and development methodology.

Graham Russell, head of global transactional finance at AstraZeneca, said that streamlining business processes would enable the company “to improve the effectiveness” of its finance function “in driving, measuring and reporting business performance”. It would also cut operational costs.

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