Quality & Metrics

500 Chinese Pharma Companies Registered in U.S., But Quality Continues to Be Stumbling Block

September 1, 2016

Chinese companies now account for more than 50 percent of the global active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) market. It has more than 500 companies registered to sell in the U.S. and 10 times that many serving its own market. But many of those continue to struggle to meet international standards.

Coke, Pepsi Square Off in Water War

September 1, 2016

Environmental Leader

The cola wars may be ancient history, but Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are facing off again. This time, it's about water.

New E.U. Privacy Law Will Hit Every Company Holding Europeans' Personal Data

August 29, 2016

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Many Americans appear to believe that the exposure of their personal information on the internet is inevitable. But European regulators are having none of that.

Technology, Which Enables Sustainability, Often Has Its Own Negative Environmental Impact

August 26, 2016

Environmental Leader

While technology can improve companies' environmental, health and safety performance it can also produce a huge environmental footprint of its own.

How Pratt & Whitney Is Doubling Jet Engine Production in Five Years

August 26, 2016

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

The aerospace giant Pratt & Whitney plans to double production of a new and innovative jet engine by 2020. Proper supply-chain management will play a huge role in the success of the venture.

Driving Process Efficiency & Transparency by Automating Quality Management

August 23, 2016

Challenge: A global solution provider for the glass container industry with production locations in Sweden, United States, China and Malaysia wanted to continually drive customer satisfaction and maintain a competitive advantage through established quality initiatives throughout the supply chain. However, the company realized that they were managing critical quality processes with separate regional systems, communicating issues via email, which has resulted in a network of disparate systems that lacked the global visibility needed.

How Companies Are Tackling the Challenge of Risk Management

August 15, 2016

SupplyChainBrain

A conversation with corporate thought leaders about the growing awareness of the need for a vigorous supply-chain risk-management effort, and how they're working to achieve that goal.

Zero Impact Isn't Enough: Going 'Net Positive' for Global Sustainability

August 5, 2016

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

When it comes to assessing the impact of business practices on the environment, the bar is being raised. Mere sustainability is no longer enough: now it's all about becoming "net positive."

Keeping Up With the New Food Safety Standards

August 3, 2016

Mike Yezzi, VP Business Development, ScottTech

Smart Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Challenges of Making Highly Engineered Products in a Dynamic Environment

August 2, 2016

Michel Gadbois, VP of Worldwide Sales, iBASEt

It's a big and transformative phenomenon worldwide, so of course it has a buzzy lexicon all its own. You can call it whatever you want - Digital Operations Technology, Industry 4.0, Industry of the Future, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Smart Manufacturing - but you can't ignore it. MESA International offers a concise definition for this wave of change: "Smart manufacturing is the intelligent, real-time orchestration and optimization of business, physical, and digital processes within factories and across the entire value chain."