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Walgreens’ Digital Commerce Evolution: Microservices to the Rescue

Logistics Viewpoints

This is a large public company with 8,900 stores in the US, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands. But the inventory planning systems that forecast where inventory will be needed are not. Walgreen is intrigued by functionality that better integrates inventory planning with order fulfillment. They generated $132.5

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Patient-centric networks at the heart of pharmaceutical supply chain management: Lessons from LogiPharma Europe 2018

Kinaxis

Excellence in operations driven by end-to-end visibility into inventory levels will be important. To highlight his point, Thornley shared this example: The API was manufactured in China, granulation was performed in Puerto Rico, and then packaging was performed in Netherlands.

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Supply Chain Best Practices: Preparing for the Worst

Elementum

Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, drug manufacturing plants were faced with production delays, fueling nationwide shortages of basic medicines. This inventory glut crowded warehouses, eventually forcing companies to cut back on their new orders to clear out their backed-up storage facilities.

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Updated IT Subway Map: Major acquisitions in SC software

Supply Chain Movement

Puerto Rico. Such a system enables those companies to fulfil orders flexibly by dispatching the goods from various inventory points (e.g. directly from their suppliers, from their own warehouse or even from a retail store). Northern Mariana Islands. Palestinian Territory, Occupied. Papua New Guinea. Philippines.

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Hurricane Florence: What We Know About the Year's First Major Storm

Elementum

The storm is expected to reach Puerto Rico on Friday morning with winds up to 73 mph. Storm surges make headlines, but they are just the beginning of potentially weeks of compromised delivery routes and warehouse operations. Mitigate this as much as possible by moving at-risk inventory to strategic locations.

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Supply Chain Best Practices: Preparing for the Worst

Elementum

Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, drug manufacturing plants were faced with production delays, fueling nationwide shortages of basic medicines. This inventory glut crowded warehouses, eventually forcing companies to cut back on their new orders to clear out their backed-up storage facilities.

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3PL Subway 2015: Strategic movements among logistics providers

Supply Chain Movement

Puerto Rico. The 2015 Annual Third Party Logistics Study also reveals that both sides regard themselves as being successful, and shippers are seeing positive results again this year: an average logistics cost reduction of 9%, an average inventory cost reduction of 5% and an average fixed logistics cost reduction of 15%.