Supply Chain Featured Articles

  1. The Solution to Temperature-Sensitive Pharmaceutical Sampling 10/26/2015

    Despite advances across the supply chain, biological pharmaceutical drugs vulnerable throughout the last mile – the final supply chain leg of pharmaceutical products to healthcare providers and patients – due to their temperature-sensitive nature.

  2. How To Strengthen Risk Management Practices In The Pharmaceuticals Supply Chain 6/25/2015

    The end customers — i.e. the patients — are largely uninterested in the complexities of the pharmaceutical supply chain, and if something goes wrong in the supply chain the responsibility and consequences are inevitably borne by the pharmaceutical manufacturer listed on the product pack. Management of these risks in order to ensure supply continuity is a significant challenge. Here are a few key best practices:

  3. Pharmaceutical Cold Chain: A Major Concern For The Unknown 6/18/2015

    Pharmaceutical products are the most vulnerable during transport.  Maintaining the cGDP quality system for transportation and product protection is a difficult challenge, and coupled with the increased focus on high-growth protein products that are environmentally sensitive, the concerns during transportation are heightened for several reasons.

  4. ULD Air Cargo Containers - Quality versus Redundancy – Where's the Argument? 6/16/2015

    In the engineering and manufacturing process, we think of a system failure backup as ‘redundant’.   However, in many cases, the development, installation and use of redundant systems can backfire and produce less, not more, reliability.

  5. Should You Outsource Your Pharma Supply Chain? 6/11/2015

    Have you thought about taking the bold step of outsourcing some or all of your pharma supply chain? If so, you won’t be the first company to consider it. But is outsourcing the best option?

  6. What Is the Industry Underestimating About An ADC Supply Chain? – Part 2 3/27/2015

    In this article, Dan Bell, vice president of regulatory compliance and technical affairs for Marken, discusses regulatory challenges, and both he and Nathan Ihle, Ph.D., VP of CMC Strategy and Management at Seattle Genetics, offer best practices to apply when planning your ADC supply chain.

  7. Why Pharmaceutical Companies Should Manage S&OP In The Cloud 3/18/2015

    With continuously changing regulations, the rise of over-the-counter and generic products, and the shift from local to global supply chains, pharmaceutical manufacturers are gaining a greater understanding of the value of sales and operations planning (S&OP). 

  8. Top 10 Temperature Management Trends for 2014 8/28/2014

    The Cold Chain GDP & Temperature Management Global Forum is dedicated to examining the latest life sciences trends – including the modern cold chain, supply chain integrity, global GDP requirements and all temperature range products.

  9. Why Monitoring Cold Chain Data Is Not Enough 5/15/2014

    In the cold chain logistics industry there’s a huge change happening. Lots of data is being gathered by wirelessly connected data loggers, sensors and monitoring equipment. By Nitin Dahad, Dyzle

  10. Lo Jack SCI Partnership Integrates Cold Chain Solutions 4/10/2014

    Maintaining a product’s quality throughout shipment is a challenge in any industry, but delivering pharmaceuticals in the cold chain can be especially challenging because of the consequences related to temperature excursion. For this reason, Ted Wlazlowski, CEO and president of LoJack SCI, a company specializing in cargo and freight security, believes it’s necessary to offer clients both strategic planning and security for their cold chain shipments. And through their recent partnership with Modality, a supply chain environmental assessment and engineering solutions company, this is now possible.