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Hands Off: iNova Pharmaceuticals Scraps Manual Processes to Improve Planning

A collection of divergent planning models and inefficient spreadsheets was preventing the company from realizing ambitious growth plans. The solution: a digital supply chain platform.

Glass vials in a pharmaceutical plant. Photo: Shutterstock.

A Hot Take on Insuring the Cold Chain

Ask perishable shippers what they think of cargo insurance, and they’ll often call it “a necessary evil.”

Glass vials in a pharmaceutical plant. Photo: Shutterstock.

For Medical Supplies Industry, Supply Chain Reverts to Status Quo

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

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.

Signage outside a CVS pharmacy store in San Francisco, California. Photo: Bloomberg.

Six Ways Blockchain Is Bolstering Supply Chains

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.

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Pharma Supply Chain Failure Is a $35 Billion Problem

The pharmaceutical industry loses roughly $35 billion annually because of failures in temperature-controlled logistics. Those losses are almost entirely preventable.

Glass vials in a pharmaceutical plant. Photo: Shutterstock.

Podcast | Is Healthcare Catching Up to Blockchain Technology?

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

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.

A parent prepares baby formula in a bottle. Photo: Getty.

Biden Invokes Emergency Powers to Try to Ease Formula Shortage

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.

A can of Similac infant formula. Photo: Creative Commons.

Hospitals Ration CT Scans, Awaiting Dye From Shanghai GE Plant

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.

A radiologist analyzes CT scans of a patient's brain. Photo: Getty.

FDA Announces Steps to Help Boost Baby-Formula Supply

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.

A can of Similac infant formula. Photo: Creative Commons.

From Sneakers to Teslas, China Lockdowns Upend Global Supply Chains

Here’s a breakdown of how the situation in China is intensifying global supply chain chaos.

Adidas sneakers on display. Photo: Bloomberg.

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