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How Are Counterfeit Drugs Procured?

MIT Supply Chain

A new approach focuses on the way these products are procured. The research explores a new approach to combating drug counterfeiters: devising mitigation strategies based on the way dispensers procure medicines. The complexity of pharmaceutical supply chains helps counterfeiters to distribute their inferior products.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech April 4 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2007, Rotterdam based Flo Group specializes in Oracle focused logistics software support and deployment services capabilities. Rockville, Maryland based OCR specializes in content and services related to export compliance and controlled commodities, denied party screening, license procurement and product classification services.

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The worst Supply Chain practices must be confessed and not only by constraint

KEPLER Consulting

However, it is essential to react quickly in order to prevent harmful effects due to the overload of the operational system (Véronneau and Cimon, 2007) and also to preserve a certain agility in for the Supply Chain. Distribution between the different Supply Chain divisions is an obstacle to communication. 3/ Workflow Management.

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5 Ways Companies are Thinking Green in Logistics

Freight Plus

As concerns about environmental impact, fuel cost, and distribution methods have come into the purview of the public eye the way company's operate their supply chains are changing. Distribution -. One of the world's largest container ship lines, Maersk, signed up 1500 of its largest suppliers for its Responsible Procurement program.

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Growing Challenges in Supplier CSR Monitoring are Being Met with Powerful Digital Solutions

EcoVadis

This is creating a ‘triple-whammy’ of imperatives for procurement teams — and their trading partners — to monitor and manage risk, while at the same time exposing new sources of value that will be the key differentiators in the future. Additional data such as sustainability indicators, can be attached at each step in the chain.

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Labor Strike Targeting the Three U.S. Automakers- Update Two

Supply Chain Matters

As we pen this update late on Friday, upwards of 38 termed parts distribution centers across 20 states have now been subject to picket lines. He went on to explain that this prior era included the economic shocks of the seventies and the global financial crisis in 2007 to 2008 when the real threat of two of the three U.S.

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More Challenges for the Transportation Network: Day 2 of the SCRC Meeting

Supply Chain View from the Field

He notes that this is similar to the 2006-2007 market where capacity was becoming constrained. This is impacting how you think about managing the network, and in procurement. Global Distribution Global Supply Chain Logistics Supply Chain Management Transportation Planning'