Combination Product Manufacturing: GLP-1 Hype, Talent Shortages, and the CDMO Shift

“Capacity isn’t the biggest gap. It’s people. And nobody’s talking about it.”For pharma and biotech companies, manufacturing combination devices means coordinating not just fill/finish manufacturing but also primary container selection, device sourcing, final assembly, and serialization — often across multiple specialist partners. As CDMOs expand their service offerings to take on more of that coordination, including final device assembly and primary container management, the boundaries of what a fill/finish partner is expected to deliver are shifting.In the latest PharmaSource podcast episode, Steven Kaufman — who has spent over 20 years in the drug delivery device space and now advises biotech companies and CDMOs on combination product strategy — breaks down where the complexity really lies, why fill/finish capacity remains so tight, and what smart companies are doing differently to protect their programs.Read more.