Healthcare

Covid Is Forcing Supply Chains to Finally Modernize

December 23, 2021

Jason Murray, SCB Contributor

Supply chain digitization is the shortest path to improved efficiency, resiliency, speed and, ultimately, cost.

Leveraging Supply Chain Management Systems to Relieve Burden on Clinicians

December 20, 2021

Angela McNally, SCB Contributor

Even during a health-care crisis, clinicians shouldn't be burdened with inventory or supply chain decision making.

Biden Signed the $550 Billion Infrastructure Deal. Here's Who Gets the Money.

November 16, 2021

Bloomberg

President Biden signed the $550 billion measure at a White House ceremony on Monday, after appointing a group of officials to guide the law’s enactment.

A Public-Private Logistics Partnership Streamlines Delivery of HIV Medicine

November 10, 2021

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Management Sciences for Health, with funding from USAID and in cooperation with multiple private and public entities in Ukraine, launches a successful pilot to improve that country’s healthcare delivery supply chain.

Moderna Finds That Creating a Covid Vaccine Was the Easy Part

November 8, 2021

Bloomberg

More than 10 months after U.S. regulators first authorized its potent shot, Moderna is finding that inventing a COVID-19 vaccine was actually a relatively straightforward task compared with what would come next: ramping up vial-filling operations on multiple continents and distributing the vaccine to countries around the world in the middle of a devastating pandemic.

Prescription Delivery Options Are Increasing. Is Your Pharmacy Prepared?

October 27, 2021

Mark Lutcavish, SCB Contributor

Building out the logistics for prescription delivery comes with considerable hurdles.

U.S. Labor Unions Are Having a Moment

October 18, 2021

Bloomberg

U.S. organized labor is having a moment after decades of erosion in both influence and power, giving workers their best chance in recent memory to claw back lost ground.

High Quits Rates, Poaching: U.S. Firms Are Plagued by Turnover

October 6, 2021

Bloomberg

U.S. employers aren’t just having a hard time attracting workers, they’re increasingly struggling to hold onto them.

Teva Recalls U.S.-Made Drugs Following Contamination Fears

October 4, 2021

Bloomberg

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has paused drug production at its Irvine, California, facility and is reviewing the concerns raised by the FDA.

Vaccine Mandates Hit Amid Historic Health-Care Staff Shortage

October 4, 2021

Bloomberg

What some are calling the worst U.S. health-care labor crisis in memory is sharpening concerns about attrition from resistance to vaccine mandates.

Healthcare

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the healthcare industry. Learn how healthcare 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.