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Little Being Done to Focus on Underlying Costs of Healthcare Supply Chains

In spite of several laws passed in the last decade, we have not begun to scratch the surface of addressing the cost of healthcare.

Serialization, Data Management Combat Counterfeiting in Food and Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

Attention is mounting by consumers, government, industry, and media to address the growing counterfeit challenges in the US.

Much Work Remains to Be Done Finding Cheaper, More Sustainable Ways to Fuel Trucking

Without trucks, the supply chain would screech to a halt. Yet, the rising cost of fueling these workhorses, not to mention the toll truck emissions take on the environment and public health, are forcing shippers and carriers alike to retool their fleets.

Comprehensive Cold-Chain Management Becoming Critical to Profitability

Adoption of carton-level tagging using temperature-sensing RFID for pharmaceuticals could be nearing an inflection point, as was seen recently with item-level tagging in apparel. But tracking temperature-sensitive pharmaceuticals is very different from tracking apparel.

Leading Pharmaceutical Company Streamlines Import Compliance with Amber Road

Challenge: One of the world's largest research-based pharmaceuticals firm had difficulty integrating its import operations with multiple brokers across disparate systems, in addition to complying with strict Food & Drug Administration regulations.

MD Logistics Pharmaceutical Packaging and Transportation Services Lead to Cost Savings

Challenge: An insulin product and device manufacturer located in Denmark moved its North American distribution from Cranbury, New Jersey to MD Logistics located in Plainfield, Indiana, compounding the daily expense of converting trade products to a repackaged sales sample, as the vendors remained located in New Jersey. The company was faced with escalating transportation expenses, product exposure to inclement weather, increased cycle times, and the management of five separate vendors.

Kenco Fleet Services Saves Manufacturer 20% on Material Handling Equipment

Challenge: A major U.S. manufacturer who partners with Kenco for integrated logistics solutions was spending nearly $20 million annually on material handling equipment (MHE). These costs consisted of forklift leases and maintenance on equipment less than four years old.

Product Protection Rises as a Top Supply Chain Concern Among Healthcare Execs

Healthcare executives around the world are investing in their supply chains as they prepare for continued global growth in an increasingly complex and dynamic environment, according to data from the fifth annual UPS "Pain in the (Supply) Chain" healthcare survey.

Liaison Technologies Acquires Hubspan, Cloud-Based Business Integration Vendor

Liaison Technologies, a provider of cloud-based integration and data-management services, has acquired Hubspan, the business-integration software vendor.

Because of Drought, Critics of Ethanol Policy Say, Stop Feeding Your Car Corn

The worst U.S. drought in more than half a century has rallied critics of the federal renewable fuel standard, which will reserve about 40 percent of the nation's corn crop for ethanol production this year.

Why Europe's Economic Woes Spell Bad News for U.S. Exporters

Schadenfreude is the act of deriving pleasure from observing the misfortunes of others. It helps to explain our enjoyment of tragedy, comedy and reality TV. It's also a convenient emotion to access when we read about economies that are in worse shape than ours. We would be well-advised, however, not to submit to the urge to feel superior to the slow-motion train wreck that is the European Union. What's happening in that dysfunctional coalition promises to have severe consequences for U.S. exporters.

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Nordstrom Rolls Out 1,500 Mobile Devices to Rack Stores

Following tests that showed mobile POS successfully sped up the checkout process in its Rack stores, Nordstrom will roll out approximately 1,500 of the devices to its 110 Rack units by the end of Q3. This deployment is in addition to the mobile POS technology already in use in Nordstrom's 117 full-line stores.

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