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Pharma Trend: Companies are Waiving Drug Patents in Developing Countries

Elementum

Strong intellectual property protection often leads to prohibitive drug prices. This aggravates the problem of access because generic competition is an effective way of reducing the prices of medicines. Waiving patents will give poor countries the opportunity to develop and strengthen domestic manufacturing.

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Mindmap High-Tech Supply Chain 4.0

Supply Chain Movement

These developments impact Original Equipment Manufacturers, both at strategic level and at operational level within their supply chains. The way by which consumers purchase, use and share technology is changing rapidly. The sourcing department is challenged by increasing compliancy issues. Tajikistan. Timor-leste. Turkmenistan.

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Mindmap for Supply Chain Execution 24/7

Supply Chain Movement

Sourcing from far-flung countries such as China is leading to growing uncertainty about the actual supply of purchase orders. Tajikistan. Tanzania, United Republic of. Timor-leste. Trinidad and Tobago. Turkmenistan. Turks and Caicos Islands. United Arab Emirates. United Kingdom. United States. United States Minor Outlying Islands.

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KPI Key Performance Indicators in Supply Chain & Logistics

Logistics Bureau

Cost as a percentage of sales (Logistics or Supply Chain). When measuring the effectiveness and cost of your supply chain you will need to set up and monitor KPIs which give visibility of cross functional activity as well as those which apply to individual supply chain components. Purchasing and supplier management. Warehousing.

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