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Drugmakers Face Puerto Rico Factory Challenges with Shattered Infrastructure

Material Handling & Logistics

Many are still trying to locate employees and find ways to move products and supplies around often-impassable roads. Drugmakers rode out Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, but keeping plants running while the devastated island picks up the pieces is likely to be tougher. Many of Puerto Rico’s 3.4

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Walgreens’ Digital Commerce Evolution: Microservices to the Rescue

Logistics Viewpoints

Brian Amend, Senior Director of Supply Chain Systems at Walgreens. But one thing many would agree it means is putting in new applications where none exist, or perhaps more often, tearing out old legacy applications and replacing them with more modern software platforms. Walgreens is a large drug store chain.

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The Biggest Supply Chain Blunders of 2017

AFFLINK

As 2017 reaches its final weeks, we reflect back on this year's blunders in supply chain planning. Indeed, 2017 was plagued by problems within international supply chains, ranging from logistical to unethical. Here we’ll explore three of the biggest failures in supply chain planning. Puerto Rico Aid.

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

Kinaxis

In early April I attended the LogiPharma Europe 2018 conference in Montreux, Switzerland, an event that attracted more than 800 attendees, including practitioners and executives from pharma and medical device industries, along with software vendors and many service providers. Patient-centric networks are reshaping pharma supply chains.

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How the Supply Chain Can Thrive in the Face of Natural Disasters

Material Handling & Logistics

As climate change drives up the regularity of natural disasters, supply chains must rely on real time data to thrive. . . . . Supply Chains at Risk. How then can your business protect itself from the risks of such overwhelming supply chain disruptions? Graham Parker. . To put it simply, context matters.

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Last-Mile Success - Closer and Faster

Cathy Roberson

Many retailers were slow to invest in required technologies until 2020 when the COVID pandemic temporarily forced physical stores to close and/or limit hours of operation, e-commerce purchases jumped, and last-mile delivery providers struggled to deliver goods on time to consumers. Innovel is now rebranded as Costco Logistics.

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The Cost of Disaster

Elementum

Hurricane Maria, which knocked out all power supply for 3.4 million residents in Puerto Rico for more than three months, cost $90 billion, while Hurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic hurricane in recorded history, left 97 people dead and recorded losses of $50 billion. Rallying the Logistics Community.