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Wake-Call for Added Resiliency Within Healthcare Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

Background On July 19, a devastating tornado with reported winds of upwards of 150 miles-per-hour devastated an area in eastern North Carolina. million square foot Pfizer life-saving drug production facility located in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Pfizer drug manufacturing facility.

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain Tech- October 10 2023

Supply Chain Matters

The technology start-up secured $30 million in Series A funding in 2022. Each relationship adds risks like data security, privacy, and fraud. is being established cooperatively by OCEMA , Georgia Ports Authority, Jacksonville Port Authority, North Carolina State Ports Authority, SACP, and CCM.

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Antitrust and the Supply Chain: Protecting the Power of the Markets

NC State SCRC

Generally speaking, the Antitrust Division can start investigating based on just about any source of information, including complaints from private citizens. This activity spans almost every possible industry, and can focus on a variety of different activities. So, what triggers an investigation?

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Handfield’s Supply Chain Analytics Predictions for 2014

Supply Chain View from the Field

I’ve had the good fortune to be presented with opportunities for compelling discussions with a significant group of leading thinkers, senior executives in procurement, logistics, and technology management over this past year. This complexity is occurring in many forms. Supply Chain Analytics Will Emerge as a Key Enabler to Performance.

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Podcast: Rob Handfield on Suppliers, Data, Tech, and Talent

Requis

He is a consultant to Fortune 500 companies and US federal agencies, and a speaker with focus on the fields of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development. Meanwhile, salespeople for suppliers were trying to work around procurement. For example, there are around 200 startups for procurement analytics.

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Bio-based Products Future is Promising, but Hurdles Exist

Supply Chain View from the Field

However, each of these firms expressed that they would benefit from more direct discussions with the BioPreferred Program to find ways to increase the utilization of the label as a default “indicator” to be used in life cycle assessment (LCA) programs similar to the use of sustainable sourced forestry products. Annual reporting.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

Strategies include sourcing more items directly from manufacturers to improve margins, SKU rationalization and space reduction, “show more carry less” and assisted-store ordering. About 40% of VF Corp’s production is sourced from the Americas, more than double the industry average. million items each day.