Procurement Transformation at Dechra Pharma: Interview with Kateryna Holovnia, Head of Procurement at Dechra Pharmaceuticals

Inside Dechra Pharma's 3-Year Procurement Transformation

Dechra Pharmaceuticals is a global specialist in the development, manufacturer and sales of veterinary pharmaceuticals worldwide.

In the latest episode of the PharmaSource podcast, we spoke to Kateryna Holovnia, Head of Procurement at Dechra Pharmaceuticals about the global transformation of the procurement function, moving from a fragmented and transactional to a unified and strategic partner to the business.

The organisation is made up of a number of acquisitions which previously operated independently, so they are in the middle of a three year strategy to harmonise and unify procurement operations.

Kateryna explains how their objective is to standardise technology and processes across the nine in-house manufacturing sites they operate, and about 70 different Contract Manufacturing Organisations (CMOs) they partner with.

“We are right now integrating our systems, and platforms, bringing all this visibility where we can consolidate where in-house manufacturing overlaps with our CDMOs, what we can leverage to get access to get one-click information."

"We have brought in global category management which has the visibility to have a helicopter view of what's going on, and what are the opportunities are regionally.”

Kateryna found moving to Dechra refreshing, finding the company open and receptive to implementing the best practices she had learned in previous roles and through her network.

Listen to the full epsiode