If product launch and ongoing production and marketing activities are to succeed, Manufacturing and Marketing teams must be on the same page. Todd Applebaum and Joan Bramer of Maxiom Group discuss how to make it happen. By Todd Applebaum, vice president, Strategy & Operations, and Joan Bramer, director, Commercial Launch and Marketing Services, Maxiom Group ( As life sciences companies commercialize new products, a high degree of coordination is required between a broad range of supporting functions. Too often, however, there are large communications gaps between two groups critical to the success of the launch, Marketing and Manufacturing. Both play important, but very distinct, roles in the preparations for launch and can easily become out of alignment with each other. Marketing professionals often do not fully realize the complexity and timelines required for manufacturing and supply. Manufacturing, on the other hand, may not appreciate the significant uncertainties faced
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