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How Do We Heal the Healthcare Value Network?

Supply Chain Shaman

” In this blog, I share the insights on the current state of the healthcare value chain and the recommendations of the panelists. Over the last decade, neither the pharmaceutical nor medical device manufacturer has been able to drive the revenue/employee productivity gains of their comparative peer groups.

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Do Supply Chain Planning systems generate any value?

Kinaxis

I have come to the conclusion that this needs some further analysis, which I won’t be able to complete in a single blog. The issue is that none of their IT investments in the last 10 years have moved the needle on operational metrics such as inventory levels, case fill rates, and other operational metrics. Their words.

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How do we Drive Invention to Innovation in Planning?

Supply Chain Shaman

He discussed the adoption of the steam engine and the electric motor in the manufacturing sector. Today, we take these technologies for granted, but the electric motor was the genesis of the horizontal manufacturing plant. Alan spoke on the impact on business economies with the adoption of technologies. It was not an ideal design.