Pharmaceutical/Biotech

Digital Network Platforms: The Five-Stage Maturity Model

July 24, 2019

Roddy Martin, SCB Contributor

Breaking down the stages of the maturity model for achieving digital transformation of the supply chain.

Amazon's Push in Health-Care Supply Chain Has Faded

July 10, 2019

Bloomberg

Amazon’s push into distribution of health-care supplies and equipment has lost momentum, according to a survey by UBS Group AG.

Good Data Optimizes the Last Mile of Small Parcel Shipping

July 9, 2019

US Bank

Cocaine Is Back. Blame Supply Chain Technology.

July 2, 2019

Bloomberg

Entrepreneurship in the competitive cocaine market is evident from innovative distribution strategies that appear to reflect the type of disruption seen in other industries.

Standards Can’t Come Soon Enough for the Pot Sector

June 24, 2019

Bloomberg

A non-profit cannabis group has announced a set of standards for the industry — aiming to be proactive before a scandal sullies the sector.

Google and Drugmaker Sanofi Join Forces on Data Technologies

June 24, 2019

Bloomberg

Google will bring its artificial-intelligence and cloud-computing capabilities to a new partnership with the pharma giant.

Asbestos-Tainted Makeup Should Be a Wake-Up Call

June 24, 2019

Tracy Walsh and Clive Crook, Bloomberg Opinion

The beauty industry has come a long way since the days of arsenic scrubs and lead-based face creams. But maybe it hasn’t come far enough.

Fourth Carcinogen Discovered in Heart Pills Used by Millions

June 19, 2019

Bloomberg

An online pharmacy told U.S. regulators it found another cancer-causing chemical in widely prescribed blood-pressure pills, raising new questions about a complex global web of companies that produces medicine for millions of people.

Growing Supplier Visibility While Cutting Costs Through Automation

June 17, 2019

Dun & Bradstreet

Challenge: A customer was standardizing and automating its global third-party risk management program, and the company needed configurable risk-based screening and custom open-source search capability in a globally integrated workflow solution. The company also wanted to accelerate its onboarding and due-diligence processes — while controlling costs and ensuring procedural variances were standardized.

MilliporeSigma Launches Four-Year Push for Packaging Sustainability

June 10, 2019

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

The quest for supply-chain sustainability requires paying as much attention to the package as the product inside it.

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.