ALLERGAN
Key Personnel
Val Petursson Managing Director of International Logistics
Val is a Supply Chain executive , with 16 years background role within different stages of supply chain processes , thereof nine years in Supply Chain roles for medium and large multi-national organizations within the Pharma and the Medical sector . He is a strong people manager and a keen people reader with a true balance of hard and soft skills . He graduated in 1996 with BA in Languages and 2003 with an MBA from Reykjavik University .
scalability was stretched to the limit , but we always managed to integrate the new companies in to the solution at the pace needed .”
It soon became apparent to Pétursson there were three options for establishing coherent and viable logistics ’ solutions . The first was for Allergan ( then Actavis ) to establish its own control tower with in house IT development , the second was to outsource full logistical control to specialized Logistic Solution Provides ( 4PL solution ) and the third was the hybrid solution he opted for . “ In retrospect I believe the hybrid was truly the only right solution for us as both other options would have been either too cumbersome to deploy or not scalable enough .”
Allergan ’ s international headquarters is in Switzerland , while its Global headquarters are in Dublin . Administrative headquarters are in Parsippany NJ .
CONTROL TOWER He said : “ We are not a logistics company we are a pharmaceutical company , and we needed to leverage our strengths and work with others who could provide us the services and support we needed . That ’ s why we decided to work with an IT solutions partner to tailor a program to meet our needs to better deliver for our customers .”
Pétursson shopped around for a control tower solution provider and subsequently teamed up with the global forwarding company . Agility which operates the control tower from its Bristol branch
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