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Transforming U.S. Healthcare in the New Health Economy: Part 1
According to PwC, the New Health Economy has come of age in 2019. With bellies full of woe and worry, American patients may be seeing some light at the end of the MRI tunnel at some point within the foreseeable future. Transforming the highly complex health care and...
The Case for Pharmaceutical Serialization and Aggregation
What is pharmaceutical serialization? By assigning a unique serial number to each pharmaceutical product, goods can be identified and tracked throughout the entire pharmaceutical supply chain. Information including the product origin, shelf life and batch number...
The Friday Report: April 26th, 2019
FDA Announces Plans to Pilot New Technologies In an effort to make the pharmaceutical supply chain fully interoperable, the FDA has revealed plans to use innovative technologies to help in the track and trace of pharmaceutical products. New technologies including...
2019 U. S. Supply Chain: Warehouse Trends
U.S. Supply Chain: Warehousing Trends of 2019Ready to know the latest? 2019 is shaping up to be a year filled with pressure. From inventory levels, to the need for speed, more warehouses, more labor and more technology to the outsourcing trend that is pushing the...
The Friday Report: April 18th, 2019
Is Cybersecurity Keeping Pace with Supply Chain Technology? As most supply chain professionals know, the supply chain is highly interconnected. Knocking out a node or two can put an entire company in jeopardy. Because there are more connections that in the past,...
Impact of the Circular Supply Chain on Sustainability
Traditionally, the supply chain is linear in nature, goods are consumed and eventually discarded in the trash. The flow of goods originates with raw materials. With today’s emphasis on sustainability and reclamation of used materials, the supply chain is adapting,...
The Friday Report: April 12th, 2019
Brexit Deadline Extended to October 31st With the original deadline for the break up with the European Union now past, and numerous Parliamentary votes unsuccessful, the EU has approved an extension to October 31st. The break can actually be executed earlier if the...
Last Mile Delivery, 3PLs and Last Yard Logistics Services
For years, much of the buzz in the supply chain industry has been about last mile delivery and last mile logistics. The “last mile” refers to the final stage of a delivery process, extending from a point of origin to the customer-specified destination. The final...
The Friday Report: April 5th, 2019
U.S. Southern Border Slows Down Crossings On March 28th, Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officials announced that the organization would reassign significant labor resources to deal with “the dramatic increase in illegal crossings that continue to occur along the...
Pharmaceutical Industry Restructuring Results in Increased Outsourcing
The pharmaceutical industry is in the throes of a massive sea change, one that will undoubtedly impact human health for decades. Due to forces such as the need to curb drug development and operational costs, dealing with a troubling skills gap across the industry and...