Healthcare

Mobile Phone Masts Support Vaccine Supply Chain

December 28, 2016

Innovative partnerships between private sector companies, voluntary organisations and governments can help solve global challenges and provide access to healthcare and food, according to a report by SCM World and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Changing Healthcare Supply Chain From Cost to Profit Center

December 22, 2016

SupplyChainBrain

After curing the ills of its founder's broken supply chain, ROi set out to remedy supply chain problems throughout the healthcare industry, and now services more than 100 hospitals.

How Smaller Suppliers Can Work With Giant Retailers

December 20, 2016

SupplyChainBrain

Emerson Healthcare teams with logistics service provider Geodis to level the playing field for its roster of small to medium-sized manufacturers. The program makes it possible for them to compete with big suppliers for space on retail shelves.

How Drug Maker Secures Integrity of Its Pharma Supply Chain

December 19, 2016

SupplyChainBrain

Meeting mandates to protect the pharmaceutical supply chain from counterfeit drugs is no easy task, but Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain has found a way to do so well before U.S. legislation kicks in and while reining in costs.

Michelin - Keeping the Supply Chain Rolling

December 15, 2016

OM Partners

2016 Supply Chain Innovation Awards Presented by SupplyChainBrain and CSCMP

December 15, 2016

SupplyChainBrain

The more complex a company's supply chain, the more challenging it is to devise a sustainability program that ensures environmental protection from design and manufacturing to packaging and from product transportation to end-of-life disposal and recycling. A comprehensive plan that's truly innovative is called for.

Implantable Medical Devices Can Be Hacked to Harm Patients, Researchers Say

December 9, 2016

CIO

It's possible to transmit life-threatening signals to implanted medical devices with no prior knowledge of how the devices work, researchers in Belgium and the U.K. have demonstrated.

Amazon Unveils AI Products for Cloud

December 9, 2016

Industryweek

Amazon.com Inc. has introduced an image recognition program, a speech-to-text service dubbed Polly, and tools for building conversational apps, highlighting its push to add artificial intelligence to its cloud-computer offerings.

How to Maintain a Healthy Supply Chain Amidst Turbulence

December 5, 2016

Warning: there's turbulence ahead. And it's inevitable. Or just about. Disasters are growing exponentially and ... alarmingly ... according to the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which set the number of global natural disasters in 2016 at just under 300 - gigantic increase over, say, 1900, when there were fewer than ten such events.

New Procurement Framework Will Speed Disease Treatment, Health Agency Says

December 2, 2016

Supply Management

A new procurement framework focuses on speed and expertise to help scientists fight public health emergencies such as an outbreak of Ebola or Zika. The new public health microbiology diagnostic framework will enable flexibility, speed and innovation in the development of cutting edge diagnostics and treatment tools, according to Public Health England (PHE), the statutory body that exists to improve the nation's health. PHE also expects it to generate savings on regular spend.

Healthcare

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the healthcare industry. Learn how healthcare companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.