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Sunday, May 26, 2013

Secure The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain From Risky Counterfeiters

Grace-Marie Turner, May 21, 2013 Comments

The Food and Drug Administration is investigating a rising number of cases involving counterfeit prescription drugs — cases that threaten the health of individual patients and the safety of the nation’s drug supply. The FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigation opened 72 new cases in 2010, up from just six a decade earlier.

Federal officials document that American consumers...

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Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

Planning Around Disaster

Planning Around Disaster, May 21, 2013 Comments

With the recent tornado strikes, and the ruination left behind, in Granbury, TX and throughout Oklahoma, there are hundreds left picking up the pieces and, tragically, several casualties. If there is anything that can be taken away from these events, it's how businesses can be affected by not only the storm's damage itself but by the resulting impact to the surrounding infrastructure. History, it...

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Planning Around Disaster

The Next Major Battlefield for Apple and Samsung

Dan Graziano, May 20, 2013 Comments

Samsung and Apple have fought over market share and patents, and they may soon start fighting over supply chains. Samsung traditionally built its products using internal supply lines, but as its devices became increasingly popular the company has been forced to seek outside help. Reuters reports that Samsung has reached out to some of Apple’s key supply chain partners about helping the comp...

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Sustainability ‘Highly Important’ to 42% of Supply Chains

Environmental Leader, May 20, 2013 Comments

Less than half of executives say sustainability is highly important to their company’s supply chain, according to a PwC survey.

Of the 42 percent of respondents who rated sustainability as highly important, 87 percent named optimizing their carbon footprint as their top priority for green adherence in their supply chain, according to the PwC‘s 2013 global supply chain survey, ...

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Flexibility Will Differentiate Supply Chains in Future

Adam Leach, May 17, 2013 Comments

Supply chains of the future will be distinguished by how quickly they can change to meet emerging demands and business needs, according to a director at Lego.

Speaking yesterday at SupplyFest in London, Calum Lewis, operations director at Lego explained the company has made a big effort to make its supply chain more agile. A key part of this involved streamlining manufacturing by reducing...

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Flexibility in Supply Chains

Can Global Supply Chains Be Accountable?

Jerry Davis, May 17, 2013 Comments

Globalization has turned every shopping trip into an encounter fraught with moral dilemmas. In April, more than 1,100 Bangladeshi garment workers lost their lives in a building collapse, reminding global consumers that low-priced t-shirts can come at a great human cost. Most consumers do not see the direct connection, assuming that distance eliminates any moral stains by the time goods reach the ...

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Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

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Supply Chain Battle

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  • Inventory in Motion: A Direct Alternative to Global Fulfillment

    David Zamsky, Friday, October 26, 2012   // Comments

    Logistics visionaries have talked for years about eliminating—or, at least, drastically reducing— the role of inventory in modern supply chains. The most efficient, slack-free supply chains, after all, wouldn’t require any inventory buffer, because supply and demand would be in perfect sync. This vision certainly h...

  • Crossing international borders with confidence

    Livingstone International, Tuesday, October 02, 2012   // Comments

    Although most businesses are eagerly looking forward to increased growth over the next two years, many say they are concerned that confusion over complex customs regulations could hamper that success, according to a survey of small- to medium-sized businesses. The survey* turned up some surprising new findings, notably that some com...

  • Cross-Functional Involvement in Sales and Operations Planning

    APQC, Thursday, September 20, 2012   // Comments

    More than three-quarters of the participants in APQC’s Open Standards Benchmarking in Supply Chain Planning involve sales and marketing in their sales and operations (S&OP) planning. More than half of the participants involve purchasing, finance, and manufacturing in this process. S&OP is the process of making decision...

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