Re-thinking Healthcare Supply Chains After COVID
Digitizing the COVID Vaccine: India’s Got This Figured Out
I had an opportunity this week to interview Ran Singh, who is the Acting Director for Asia Pac for Audits and Compliance at GlaxoSmithKline. I met Ran through the 360RX Supply Chain Security Conference, held last year. At this meeting, […]
What’s the Hold-up With COVID Vaccinations? Don’t Hold Your Breath…a 2021 Prediction
Welcome to 2021! At the beginning of each year, I typically put together some predictions about what to expect in the supply chain world in the next year. Umm…. I didn’t do so well in 2020…. About the only predictions […]
More Testing is Still Critical as COVID Vaccines Roll Out
Our research team in the Poole College has continued to work on the problem of how best to distribute COVID tests during a nationwide and global shortage of tests, as pandemic cases continue to grow. Based on our interviews with […]
Key Takeaways from our Vaccine Supply Chain Webinar on December 16
As the Pfizer vaccine is rolling out across the country this week, Major Dan Finkenstadt and I delivered a webinar, in which we identified a list of possible concerns and “hiccups” that may lie in store for distribution of the […]
CBC- The Medical Supply Chain Explained
SCRC Executive Director Rob Handfield and Eugene Schneller, professor of supply chain management at Arizona State University, were recently featured on WNIN radio to discuss the basics of the medical supply chain and the effects the events of 2020 have […]
Preparing for the Vaccine: An SCRC Webinar on December 16
On December 16, Major Dan Finkenstadt and I will be delivering a webinar on the upcoming roll-out of the vaccine. Covid-19 Vaccine Distribution: Potential Problems and Bottlenecks [WEBINAR] The webinar is based on our personal observations, insights, and discussions with […]
Emergent Supply Chain Challenges for Deployment of the COVID19 Vaccine: Saving the Commons
As we enter into the early stages of the second wave of COVID cases, hospitals and public health administrators are worried about the new influx of cases that will arrive before the development and deployment of COVID vaccines in 2021. […]
“One Word – Are you Listening? – Plastics”: A Critical Bottleneck to COVID Testing
This famous line from “The Graduate” describes one of the major bottlenecks that exists in the PCR testing supply chain, as we learned in our research interviews this week. I am working with a team of faculty and students on […]
Why the U.S. Still Has a Severe Shortage of Medical Supplies
Unlike toilet paper and hand sanitizer, the supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) and critical health care supplies in the United States still hasn’t stabilized, and health care professionals across the country continue to face higher risk working conditions as […]
Just How Dire is the COVID Healthcare Global Supply Chain Response? (A Case Study)
One would surmise from some of the political proclamations made in the last few days that the COVID crisis is behind us and that everything is back to normal. Some of my recent research has involved interviews with healthcare physicians, […]