Pharmaceutical/Biotech

Seven Key Challenges In Healthcare Supply Chains

June 23, 2015

Don Amato, Vice President of Sales, Chicago Tag & Label

Healthcare supply chains have all the challenges of supply chains in other industries, but they also have unique issues that add an extra measure of complexity: The strict government regulations that healthcare supply chains must conform to increase the difficulty of balancing speed, visibility and control. Here's a look at some of the problems healthcare companies face in supply chain management.

JCPenney Plans to Move Into E-commerce in a Big Way

June 23, 2015

FierceRetaiIT

JCPenney is working to align its stores and e-commerce operation while preparing to do more targeted and personalized marketing with consumers.

Today's Robots Are a Different Breed

June 22, 2015

Wall Street Journal

A new generation of robots is on the way - smarter, more mobile, more collaborative and more adaptable. They promise to bring major changes to the factory floor, as well as potentially to the global competitive landscape.

Upended Business Model Brings New Opportunities to Industrial Distributors, Study Finds

June 22, 2015

UPS

Industrial distributors are facing changing market conditions that are challenging their long-standing business models, according to a study conducted by research firm TNS on behalf of UPS.

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.

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.

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.