Center of Excellence - Pharma 4.0 by Dr. Jayant Joshi
Aug 28, 2026 · 25 min · 10 segments
AI-to-Value Board Scorecard for Pharma Supply Chain In this episode of Center of Excellence - Pharma 4.0, we explore how pharmaceutical companies can move beyond AI experimentation and prove tangible…
Jayant JoshiHost
Imagine for a second that, uh, a minor labor strike breaks out at a specialized chemical plant in India.
Right.
Right.

But then three months later, you walk up to a pharmacy counter in Ohio to pick up, you know, a life-saving oncology drug for a family member, and the pharmacist just shakes their head.
And that scenario, I mean, that happens way more often than you might think.

It really highlights this incredibly brittle, high-stakes reality of the global pharmaceutical supply chain.

So today, in this deep dive, we're looking at how the pharma industry is trying to use AI to, well, basically predict that obscure labor strike before it ever disrupts your life.
Yeah.
And more importantly, how they actually prove to regulators that the AI isn't just, you know, making things up.
Oh, absolutely.
You've got the broader tech sector, which operates on this whole ethos of, you know, move fast, push beta software, fix the bugs later.
Exactly.
But then you have the pharmaceutical industry, where a single software bug or a wrong prediction can-- uh, can literally cost a human life.
So the friction between those two realities is just immense.

It's created by the Center of Excellence Pharma four point oh, and it's called the AI to Value Board Scorecard for Pharma Supply Chain.
Quite a mouthful.
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