Pharmaceutical/Biotech

For Medical Supplies Industry, Supply Chain Reverts to Status Quo

July 13, 2022

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.

Six Ways Blockchain Is Bolstering Supply Chains

June 13, 2022

Rob Viglione, SCB Contributor

In today's digital world, companies are under pressure to be more transparent with their customers. This is especially true for supply chains, where customers want to know where their products are coming from and how they’re being made.

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.

Baby Formula Shortage Shows Risk of U.S. Industry Concentration

May 25, 2022

Bloomberg

Decades of market consolidation in the U.S. have resulted in problems like the one millions of American families are now facing. Four companies — Abbott, Perrigo, Nestle and Mead Johnson — control 90% of the U.S. supply of formula.

Biden Invokes Emergency Powers to Try to Ease Formula Shortage

May 18, 2022

Bloomberg

President Biden invoked emergency powers under the Defense Production Act to try and boost production of baby formula, while ordering the use of government planes for imports to alleviate shortages.

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.

Pharmaceutical/Biotech

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