Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences
Strategic Certainty for Antifragile Pharmaceutical Production
De-risk investment, master supply chain complexity, and maximise network-wide production capacity. Decision Lab’s Strategic Asset & Capacity Intelligence solutions give you the data-driven foresight to go beyond resilience and act with confidence.
Engineering the Antifragile Supply Chain
In today’s volatile landscape, a supply chain designed to be resilient is no longer enough. True market leadership requires moving beyond recovery and engineering an antifragile system that learns and gains capability from disruption. We partner with the world’s leading pharmaceutical and life sciences companies to achieve this transformation. Our work translates the strategic imperative of antifragility into tangible results, de-risking multi-billion dollar network decisions and creating intelligent, sentient factories that master complexity. The stories below showcase how we turn this powerful concept into a practical reality.
Pharma & Life Sciences
Beyond Resilience: The 2030 Playbook
In our white paper from Decision Lab CEO David Buxton grasp the strategic shift from resilience to antifragility. Including the 4 pillars of antifragility and a 3-phase actionable roadmap to engineering an antifragile pharma supply chain that thrives on volatility.
Pharma & Life Sciences
Antifragile Pharmaceutical Production
AstraZeneca replaced a manual reactive system with a dynamic manufacturing network digital twin. Transforming manufacturing operations into intelligent, adaptive systems that master complexity and absorb disruption.
Pharma & Life Sciences
Strategic Network Design
De-risking high-stakes network decisions to ensure patient access to life-changing therapies.
Reduced the average time-to-diagnosis by up to 47%, and time-to-treatment cut by 35%.
Unlock Quantifiable Value Across Your Network
Partnering with Decision Lab delivers tangible, board-level results. Our clients are empowered to make better, faster, data-driven decisions.
10%
Uplift in OEE
Improved asset utilisation by smoothing production flow and reducing downtime.
Are You Facing These Critical Challenges?
The pressure to innovate, grow, and supply the globe has never been higher. Yet, the traditional tools for planning and strategy are no longer fit for purpose.
In a world of constant disruption, simple resilience isn’t enough. The future belongs to those who can build systems that thrive on volatility. We call this Antifragility.
High-Stakes CAPEX Risk
Making high-value decisions on new facilities based on static spreadsheets is a gamble. How can you be certain your investment will deliver the required capacity and return?
Supply Chain Fragility
Your global supply chain is vulnerable to shocks, shortages, and demand shifts. Can you accurately forecast and quantify your exposure to disruption before it happens?
Inefficient Production & OEE
Maximising throughput and minimising changeover times is a constant battle. Are hidden bottlenecks throttling the true potential of your high-value assets?
Disconnected Planning Systems
Your ERP is a powerful system of record, but lacks the forward-looking, ‘what-if’ scenario modelling required for strategic decision-making. Can you get a unified, predictive view?
Internal Skills Gap
You have world-class operational experts, but lack the niche skillset in simulation, optimisation, and applied AI to solve these complex network-level problems.
Strategic Asset & Capacity Intelligence
From Data Silos to a Strategic Decision-Making Layer
Decision Lab provides more than just another analytics tool. We deliver a Strategic Asset & Capacity Intelligence solution that acts as a dynamic, forward-looking brain for your entire manufacturing network.
By creating a high-fidelity Digital Twin of your end-to-end operations, we connect siloed data and empower you to see the future impact of your decisions today. We transform your existing data from a rear-view mirror into a predictive windscreen.
Our Technology: From Insight to Action
We deploy advanced AI to create a dynamic, learning model of your entire value chain.
AI Digital Twins
We don’t just create a static model. We build a dynamic AI Digital Twin of your entire value chain. This twin learns from your data, understands complex interdependencies, and becomes a virtual sandbox to test strategies, predict outcomes, and optimise performance without risking real-world operations.
Agentic AI & Reinforcement Learning
Our core advantage lies in using Agentic AI and Reinforcement Learning. We model every critical component of your network—machines, people, logistics—appropriately as processes, agents and flows. Our intelligent agents interact, learn, and adapt, revealing emergent bottlenecks and discovering novel, high-performance strategies that are impossible to find with traditional analytics and simulation.
Partnering with leaders across the pharmaceutical and life sciences landscape
How do you de-risk a multi-billion dollar CAPEX decision?
Static, spreadsheet-based analysis is no longer enough to justify major network investments in a volatile market. You need a strategic flight-simulator, not a spreadsheet model.
Our new white paper details how to use Strategic Digital Twins to model a decade of operations in silico—testing facility designs and M&A integrations before you commit billions.
With a 3-phase actionable C-Suite plan, learn how to build a dynamic, adaptable network by design. Download Beyond Resilience.