Pharmaceutical/Biotech

For Trade Agreement Backers, It's a Slow Path to Fast Track

June 22, 2015

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

On Capitol Hill right now, "fast-track" is the slowest thing going.

Late to the Party: Healthcare Giants Embrace RFID, With Immediate Results

June 19, 2015

SupplyChainBrain

BJC HealthCare joins with Cardinal Health and Cook Medical in a three-way pilot to apply RFID tags to items at the supplier stage. Will their success goad a technologically backward industry to follow suit, and eliminate billions of dollars of waste from the supply chain?

Procurement Leaders Should Ease Up on Cost Reduction

June 19, 2015

Paul Nöel, Senior Vice President, Procurement Solutions, Ivalua

Globalization and evolving social, economic and regulatory trends have elevated corporate competition to a new level altogether. For procurement departments in particular, cutting costs, doing more with less, and running agile operations are the new standards for success.

Brazil Forecast for Q3 2015: Political Risk Rises

June 18, 2015

Christian Science Monitor

Toys "R" Us Logistics Hub Opens Near Paris

June 18, 2015

Toys 'R' Us

Toys "R" Us Inc. has opened a distribution center in Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry, France, to support the company's expanding e-commerce business throughout the country and in select sections of Europe.

The Rise of the Agile, Networked Platform

June 18, 2015

ChainLink Research

Don't get left behind by more companies with more innovative and agile supply chains. Supply chain digitization is happening now. New networked technology platforms are co-evolving with new networked business models, together enabling companies to rapidly find, assess and integrate with trading partners in order to swiftly create and deliver unique and valuable products and services.

U.S. Ban on Trans Fat to Bring Big Shift in Supply to Food Industry

June 18, 2015

Business Week

Artificial trans fat will be banned from the U.S. food supply over the next three years under a ruling by regulators that the products pose health risks that contribute to heart disease, the leading killer of Americans.

Pilot Enhances Services Offered to Retail Industry

June 17, 2015

Pilot Freight Services

Pilot Freight Services has added Retail Services to its repertoire of transportation and logistics solutions. These services involve managing and coordinating the logistics requirements associated with store planning and design, as well as visual merchandising. Under its Retail Services offering, Pilot will expand its work with brick-and-mortar retailers on projects, including opening new stores, rolling out new seasonal displays, and remodeling stores.

Chemical Industry Urged to Pump More into Export Logistics

June 17, 2015

Wall Street Journal

The boom in natural gas production in the U.S. is "rippling downstream" to the plastics industry, and chemical companies will need to invest more in export logistics facilities as they ramp up U.S. plastics production, says Owen Kean, senior director of the American Chemistry Council. "For the most part, what's happening in the chemical industry is largely an export story."

Changing the Flu Vaccine Delivery Model By 600%

June 15, 2015

Challenge: DMLogic was challenged by a major pharmaceutical manufacturer to help change the delivery model of their seasonal flu vaccine from wholesale's distribution to direct shipments to physicians' offices and retail outlets. The impact was to radically change their shipping operations from 500 cases to 30,000 individual doses per week.

Pharmaceutical/Biotech

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Learn how pharmaceutical and biotech 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.