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What is Supply Chain Management? Importance & Benefits

QAD

Supply chain management (SCM) is essential to any business strategy. Supply chain management is never boring, and there’s always more to learn. What is a Supply Chain? Simply put, a supply chain controls the flow of raw materials and goods. What is Supply Chain Management?

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Hyper-Collaboration in Life Sciences Creates Supply Chain Opportunities

Logility

Hyper-collaboration means seeing ecosystems for what they are: not just candy stores full of opportunities, but fiercely competitive arenas in which companies fight for the best partners, technologies, and networks to create, build and defend added value.” Should Supply Chain Professionals be Hyperventilating? . Compliance.

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Supply Chain Leadership Series IV: Joydeep Ganguly – Passionate About Sustainable Supply Chains

NC State SCRC

I had the opportunity to have him talk to my MBA class recently, and we covered a variety of topics – from career development to the biotech industry. Serving as the Chief Sustainability Officer for the organization, Joydeep also leads Gilead’s environmental sustainability strategies globally. frameworks are one such strategy.

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Tracking Medical Shipments with Alex Guillen

The Logistics of Logistics

Alex is the Director of Sales, Life Science and Pharma Europe at Tive , the leading provider of real-time supply chain visibility insights that help logistics professionals actively manage their in-transit shipments’ location and condition. Previously, Guillen served as a Board Member and leader of Corporate Strategy at SWITRACE S.A,

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Adapting to Manufacturing Disruption: A Strategic Life Sciences Webinar Series

QAD

Each 30-minute episode will present a different strategy to help your business become more adaptive and more likely to thrive. Discover how leveraging new ERP technology can help create more effective and efficient core processes and introduce real-time analytics to your life science business.

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Driving profitability through advanced S&OP

Kinaxis

by Alexa Cheater As Gartner Research Director Matthew Spooner noted in his recent presentation at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference, advanced sales and operations planning (S&OP) is like a hotel. In fact, Spooner says S&OP isn’t a supply chain process at all. Supply visibility. Bias down 10%.

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SCRC Partner Profile: A Textbook Transformation at Biogen-Idec

Supply Chain View from the Field

It isn’t easy to drive change in biotech companies for a number of reasons. With their external spend increasing so fast, there is great pressure on biotech companies to rethink how their sourcing structures are set up to add most value. is showing how this can happen in the biotech sector. Biogen Idec Inc.