Biopharmaceutical Supply Chain
Healthcare Strategic Stockpile Management Remains a Big Challenge
Beginning in 2015 the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine led a standing committee to inform Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) decision-making. This committee included “…state and local public health officials, representatives of medical manufacturing and distribution companies, logistics managers, […]
Needed: A National Governance Framework for Healthcare Supply Chains
The Tragedy of the Commons – A situation in which a shared resource system, where individual users, acting independently according to their own self-interest, behave contrary to the common good of all users by depleting or spoiling the shared resource […]
Coronavirus reminds us to review supply chain continuity plans
The rapid escalation of the Corona virus has now devastated China and other regions, resulting in more than 800 deaths and more than 37,000 cases worldwide. The most critical outcome of this issue is the tragic loss of life, but […]
Risk Management in Contract Pharmaceutical Development: Contract Research Part 2
The second installation in our series on contract management research published by MBA students from my online Contract Management class is by Julia Condit, and focuses on the challenges of managing contracts in the pharmaceutical industry. As pharmaceutical companies go […]
Changing Executive Mindsets on Global Product Integrity: The Fight Against Counterfeiting Is Here to Stay
I recently interviewed the Director of Brand Protection at a large pharmaceutical company, who shared with me the timeline around how his company gradually shifted and changed its views on brand security, and built a business case around the need […]
Pharmaceutical offshoring makes recalls more costly with more quality headaches
I spent some time working on a study of how offshoring impacts quality issues, specifically product recalls, with a number of researchers at the University of Palermo, led by Manfredi Bruccoleri. Our research led to some very interesting findings on […]
Walgreen’s Acquisition of Amerisource Bergen is based on the need for integration to survive
The news of Walgreen’s potential acquisition of Amerisource Bergen is one of a string of recent announcements that signify efforts by channel players in the massive life sciences market to set up barriers to competition against behemoths by the likes […]
Healthcare Utilization Management: Solving the Mystery of the Missing Inventory
I recently had a chance to interview a supply chain director from a mid-sized hospital in New York state, that was very insightful in helping me to think about the challenge around inventory management. The supply chain officer described the […]
SCRC Executive Roundtable: Combating Counterfeit in the Supply Chain
This week the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative is holding an executive panel focused on the challenges of dealing with counterfeiting in the supply chain. We will be hosting a number of major public and private sector participants including the Air Force, the […]
Innovation Leadership in the Middle of Organization Change at Biogen
I spent the day at Biogen’s headquarters in Cambridge, MA today, with a group of executives sharing ideas on how to drive innovation. Biogen is already a highly innovative company, as they have continued to drive new treatments in MS, […]