Goodwill Provides Assembly and Inventory Management

Covance was looking to reduce costs in its assembly operation. The company needed to incorporate a purchasing program with approved vendors and establish an inventory system to maintain both raw material and finished good levels.

About Covance
One of the world's largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies offering drug development solutions from preclinical through commercialization.

Why Goodwill
A customer of Goodwill for more than eleven years, Covance utilizes Goodwill to provide kitting and subassembly of delicate sterilized medical supplies. Goodwill provides assembly, packaging, warehousing and shipping of more than 5.5 million items per year.

How the partnership started
Covance was exposed to Goodwill's capabilities through its participation in an outside focus group. The company had a short-term assembly need and Goodwill's solutions exceeded Covance's expectations. Eleven years later, the relationship continues to grow.

Benefits Covance achieved
Over the years, Goodwill has been able to assist Covance in improving price over its previous assembly charges. More recently because of a recall from the original manufacturer, Goodwill, utilizing its state-of-the-art inventory management system, was able to easily and quickly locate recalled needles that were already placed in packages and pull them from production. Without such a system in place, production time and money would have been lost.

"Covance's business continues to grow, and Goodwill has been able to meet our demands without fail. Goodwill has proven to be a reliable source for the labor that we don't necessarily have the people for, and they're also able to provide that to us at a very good cost."
Don Snyder, Senior Manager Global Kit Production, Covance

Goodwill offerings include:

Kitting
Assembly
Sub-assembly
Packaging
Warehousing
Shipping
Purchasing
Inventory management

For more information, please contact Commercial Services, at commercialservices@goodwillindy.org or at 1-877-ASSEMBLE (277-3625).