Healthcare

The Devastating Impact of Food Recalls on the Supply Chain

July 8, 2016

The recall of a single food ingredient can have massive implications for manufacturers and retailers, ranging over multiple supply chains.

Improve Overall Operations, Save Time, and Increase Inventory Accuracy with PickPro Software

July 7, 2016

ScottTech

The Dynamic Role of a Systems Integrator

June 30, 2016

ScottTech

Boston Scientific: How the Life Sciences Sector Addresses Risk Management

June 30, 2016

SupplyChainBrain

Michael Landberg, strategic global sourcing manager at Boston Scientific, describes how a major player in life-sciences approaches the critical issue of risk management.

Pfizer to Build Biologics Plant in China Using GE's Time-Reducing Modular Construction Process

June 30, 2016

Fierce Retail

Pfizer will build a biologics plant in China, where it will make biosimilars for the Chinese market but also for sale throughout the world. The New York drugmaker has turned to GE for construction of the facility, which has developed a modular construction process that will cut the cost and allow the plant to be operational in about 18 months, instead of three years.

Real-Time Location System Enables Clinic to Keep Tabs on Patients, Employees, Assets

June 29, 2016

RFID Journal

Since opening last month, the new Stanford Children's Health Specialty Services - Sunnyvale clinic has received the best patient satisfaction survey results of any of Stanford Children's Health 60-some facilities. The health-care company attributes the high patient satisfaction levels, in large part, to a real-time location system that enables the staff to find patients, personnel and assets efficiently, says Lee Kwiatkowski, Stanford Children's Health's director of ambulatory transformation.

PTC Issues PLM Application for Medical Device Industry

June 17, 2016

PTC

PTC has made available its Value-Ready Deployment (VRD) application for the medical device industry.

Dental Supplies Company Exemplifies Digital Transformation Through Cloud, Mobile, IoT

June 16, 2016

Fortune

You probably don't think of Henry Schein as a technology company. In fact, you probably don't think of Henry Schein at all. At No. 268 on the Fortune 500, it is one of the least known names on the list, in the most mundane of businesses - wholesaling supplies to dentists. But Henry Schein has managed to place itself at the center of a technological revolution. It has turned its dull-as-mouthwash catalogue business into the leading platform for digital dentistry, and increasingly for other medical practices.

Merck Suffers Drug Supply Interruption Headache - Again

June 8, 2016

FiercePharma

Merck & Co. is facing another supply interruption for its ovulation-stimulating hormone Follistim, and like the supply lapse from several years ago, Merck has little to say.

DHL Global Forwarding Launches Ocean Thermonet

June 6, 2016

DHL Global Forwarding

DHL Global Forwarding has launched DHL Ocean Thermonet, a new ocean freight product tailored to the life sciences and healthcare sector.

Healthcare

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the healthcare industry. Learn how healthcare companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.