The pharmaceutical drug market is all about production, development and manufacturing of drugs and medicinal compounds (Khanna, 2012). Medicinal compounds, on the other hand, include all active chemical or organic products with capabilities of eradication and control of diseases.
Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the provision of product and service packages required by the end customers (Christopher, 2016). The network of interconnected businesses comprises of the following SCM building blocks.
R&D investments are an important component for driving the sales and distribution of the pharmaceutical drug market (Pammolli, Magazzini, & Riccaboni, 2011).
Chicago Manual of Style referencing style was incepted in 1906 by the University of Chicago Press (University of Chicago, 2017). It follows two styles: note & bibliography and the author-date system.
According to a report by WHO, (2015) asthmatic drugs comprised approximately 30% of the overall drugs market. However, allergic cases such as drug hypersensitivities, food hypersensitivities, skin allergies, and others; lack a significant market share in spite of their rising prevalence.