Healthcare

When Is Stockpiling Medical Supplies Worth It?

July 27, 2022

Now is the time to embrace strategies that set healthcare facilities up for success, regardless of whether there’s a surplus or shortage of crucial medical supplies.

For Medical Supplies Industry, Supply Chain Reverts to Status Quo

July 13, 2022

Helen Atkinson, Senior Editor

The medical supplies industry is reverting to the supply chain strategies they used before COVID-19, despite severe ongoing challenges.

CVS, Rite Aid Ration Contraceptive Pills as Demand Surges

June 28, 2022

Bloomberg

CVS and Rite Aid pharmacies are limiting purchases of emergency contraceptive pills as demand for the medication surged following the U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down the constitutional right to abortion.

Watch: The Impact of the Baby Formula Shortage

June 19, 2022

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Jonathan Havens, partner in the law firm of Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, explains the causes of the current infant formula shortage, and discusses possible solutions to the crisis, both short- and long-term.

Pharma Supply Chain Failure Is a $35 Billion Problem

June 9, 2022

Mahesh Veerina, SCB Contributor

The pharmaceutical industry loses roughly $35 billion annually because of failures in temperature-controlled logistics. Those losses are almost entirely preventable.

THE SCB PODCAST

Podcast | Is Healthcare Catching Up to Blockchain Technology?

June 3, 2022

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Blockchain technology is well advanced within some industry supply chains, but healthcare isn’t among them.

Hospitals Ration CT Scans, Awaiting Dye From Shanghai GE Plant

May 18, 2022

Bloomberg

Hospitals around the U.S. are postponing CT scans and rationing care while waiting on shipments of medical dye made in a Shanghai plant that just restarted production amid the city’s lockdown.

FDA Announces Steps to Help Boost Baby-Formula Supply

May 17, 2022

Bloomberg

Abbott Laboratories reached a pact with U.S. authorities that would allow it to begin making baby formula again at a troubled plant in Michigan, a move that could help ease a supply shortfall that has rattled many parents.

From Sneakers to Teslas, China Lockdowns Upend Global Supply Chains

May 16, 2022

Bloomberg

Here’s a breakdown of how the situation in China is intensifying global supply chain chaos.

A Guide to Jumpstarting Circular Supply Chain Transformation

May 12, 2022

Rich Sherman, SupplyChainBrain Contributor and Li De (Tony) Chen, SupplyChainBrain Contributor

Until recently, most supply chains have projected linear patterns from production to consumption.

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.