Dr Reddy's
HE-Global Health & Healthcare
HE-Global Health & Healthcare
Dr Reddy's Laboratories is a global, vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with a presence in active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), branded formulations, generics, biologics, speciality products and new chemical entities (NCEs), marketed in over 100 countries with an emphasis on North America, Europe, India, Russia and other emerging markets. Dr Reddy's Laboratories is pursuing low-cost innovation in NCE and proprietary products with a focus on US dermatology and neurology segments. The company formulated Rituximab, the world's first monocolonal antibody, and is engaged in developing and launching biosimilars. It has an alliance with Merck Serono.
Hyderabad, IN - Lighthouse award in Productivity
Facing severe year-on-year price erosion in generics and rising regulatory demands on quality, a 25-year-old formulation site for oral solid doses embarked on large-scale digitalisation. Working in 'garage mode' on an industrial IoT backbone and a democratised advanced-analytics platform, it deployed more than 40 4IR use cases across manufacturing, quality control and the warehouse. The site reports a 43% improvement in manufacturing cost and a 41% reduction in energy use.