Pharmaceutical/Biotech

Amazon Forms Team to Focus on Driverless Technology

April 27, 2017

Amazon.com Inc. has created a team focused on driverless-vehicle technology to help navigate the retail giant's role in the shake-up of transportation, according to people briefed on the matter.

Wal-Mart Wants Suppliers to Eliminate a Gigaton of Greenhouse Gases by 2030

April 26, 2017

Bloomberg

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., long known for squeezing its suppliers on prices, is now pressuring companies including Unilever and Colgate-Palmolive Co. to help the world's biggest retailer remove a billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from its supply chain by 2030.

Amazon's On-Demand Manufacturing Sends Tremors Through Supply Chain

April 26, 2017

Air Cargo World

If Amazon's latest clothing manufacturing plans become a reality, air cargo companies could stand to lose billions in revenues. Last week, the e-commerce giant was awarded a patent for a localized manufacturing setup that eliminates much of the traditional supply chain, bringing manufacturing closer to consumers than ever before.

Nonprofit Linked to PhRMA Rolls Out Campaign to Block Drug Imports

April 25, 2017

Los Angeles Times

A nonprofit organization that has orchestrated a wide-reaching campaign against foreign drug imports has deep ties to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, the powerhouse lobbying group that includes Eli Lilly, Pfizer and Bayer

Arkansas Execution Plan Is a Major Test for Drug Secrecy Measures

April 21, 2017

Los Angeles Times

If Arkansas succeeds in executing multiple inmates by the end of the month, despite several setbacks in court, it will show that states have found an effective way of repelling some legal challenges that have thwarted or delayed executions in recent years.

Survival Strategies for Struggling Retailers

April 21, 2017

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

In the age of the omnichannel, is there any hope for traditional retail chains?

RFID Technology Lights Up Prescription Will-Call System

April 20, 2017

RFID Journal

North Carolina drug retailer Drugco Discount Pharmacy has employed an RFID light stick for pharmacy will-call. The Suncrest Solutions system - new to U.S. drugstores - automates the retrieval process for prescription drugs when customers arrive at the counter to pick them up.

UPS Adds 400 Dangerous Commodities to Its Fly List

April 20, 2017

Air Cargo World

UPS is heading into the "danger zone," saying it is ready to handle a wider range of higher-risk goods. The express giant is now allowing an additional 400 "dangerous" commodities onto its global air network, as well as increasing the size of allowable shipment. The company is also adding more than 300 products across its ground network in Europe.

GSK Recalling Nearly 600,000 Ventolin Inhalers in the U.S.

April 18, 2017

FiercePharma

With sales of its respiratory drugs doing well, GlaxoSmithKline has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars to expand manufacturing of several kinds of inhalers. But a glitch at one of its Ventolin inhaler plants has resulted in recalling nearly 600,000 units in the U.S.

DHL Doubles Down on Green Delivery Vehicles

April 18, 2017

Air Cargo World

Deutsche Post DHL Group (DP-DHL) says it's embracing the green revolution, doubling the production capacity of its own electric vehicles from 10,000 to as many as 20,000 by the end of the year. The news follows an announcement earlier that DP-DHL will reduce all logistics-related growth emissions to zero in net terms by 2050.

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