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Leading Healthcare Systems Respond to Obamacare by Making Supply Chain a...
The health care industry in the US is undergoing transformation driven by the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) and the increasing impact of consumerism. Healthcare providers historically have had...
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Bolster Your Supply Chain’s Memory in Time for DQSA
In the movie Memento, the main character, Leonard Shelby, relies on tattoos and Polaroid pictures to retrace his past after amnesia wipes out his memory. He needs these details to faithfully...
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A Strategic Approach to Outsourcing European Distribution
I spoke to Tom Doherty, Senior Director Global Supply Chain at Welch Allyn, about the process they used to select a third party logistics (3PL) partner for European distribution. Welch Allyn, a...
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New Solutions to Support a Pharmaceutical Value Chain that is in Flux
Leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies must continue to adapt to increasing global competition, regulation, and pricing pressures. In response, the pharmaceutical industry is undergoing a major...
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Pfizer Embraces the Digital Supply Chain
A digital supply chain transformation efforts depend upon getting good data, automating processes, making more holistic decisions, and eventually, perhaps, using predictive analytics to transform the...
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Coronavirus and the Automotive and Pharmaceutical Supply Chains
Earlier this week, the death toll from the Wuhan coronavirus rose to over 1,000 people, invoking memories of the 2003 SARS outbreak. However, the coronavirus has yet to be contained and appears to be...
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Coronavirus is Disrupting Indian Industry
While the impact of coronavirus on Indian industry has so far been moderate, India’s extremely high import dependence on China means there are significant ramifications for Indian industry. Of the top...
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Medtronic’s Digital Twin Journey
Medtronic MDT has been engaged in a digital transformation. This includes building out a digital twin of their end-to-end supply chain to make it easier for people to make better and faster supply...
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Drone Deliveries of Medicines Begin in the US
Drone Pad at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Wake Forest Baptist Health has begun drone deliveries of medicines and blood. As soon as a patient checks in at a Wake Forest Baptist Health infusion clinic,...
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Does Perfect Customer Service Make Sense?
In supply chain management, it is widely accepted that holding enough finished goods inventory to fulfill every order is just too costly. The thinking goes that at some point, improving service levels...
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