Logistics Articles

91. The Multiplier Effect Of Drug-Device Convergence 6/23/2015

    First-generation drug-device pioneers could not have envisioned today’s landscape. The growing convergence between medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and biologics is transforming these once-separate market sectors, not to mention the state of health care and our quality of life. The global market for drug-device combinations is on track to generate $115 billion in market value by 2019. Thus, opportunity — and demand — abounds for effective treatments combined with innovative drug delivery methods.

92. 3 Ways To Gain A Strategic Edge With Your Medical Device Supply Chain 12/22/2014

    Is distribution a core competency for your company? My guess is that you answered “no.” Most medical device manufacturers would cite R&D, design, production, or even sales and marketing as points of strength in the value chain. Far fewer, I’d venture to say, would claim outbound logistics as a strategic advantage — which is completely understandable. Supply chain management for medical device manufacturers is no longer a matter of simply moving products from point A to point B.

93. Despite An Airport Strike, Marken Preserves The Data Chain 5/4/2014

    Marken collected a shipment from southern Sweden that was bound for next-day delivery in northern Belgium. However, all airline flights into Belgium were cancelled as a result of a strike action by airport workers.

94. Protecting A Temperature-Critical Healing Innovation In Storage And Shipping 11/7/2013

    Mike Whitmore, ABH's logistics manager, explains that the company faced two challenges. First, it was running out of storage space; when operating at maximum capacity, the company can produce more than 300,000 units of Dermagraft per year. Second, keeping its entire inventory in one location posed a risk to the supply.

95. Improved Supply Chain Execution In Medical Device Manufacturing 10/2/2013

    This case study explains how a major medical device manufacturer transitioned from a traditional paper-based manual kanban system to a cloud-based ekanban system for the lean manufacturing of high quality, defect free, and low cost intravenous (IV) infusion, medication and supply dispensing, respiratory care, infection prevention, and surgical instruments.

96. Marine Transportation Becomes Feasible For Pharmaceuticals 7/9/2013

    Ocean shipping has long been the transportation mode of choice for low cost goods with long shelf lives. Items that were high value, high tech or had limited shelf lives were shipped air cargo or, once on the continent, by truck or train. That is beginning to change. Now, even pharmaceutical manufacturers and logistics providers are exploring ocean shipping for all or part of a journey.

97. Understand The Source Of Product Damage With Data Loggers 6/18/2013

    In the age of big data, companies are accumulating mountains of it. Data is gathered by every department in an organization on a countless number of parameters.

98. A 15-Minute Guide To Clinical Trial Document Management And The eTMF 5/30/2013

    At the Drug Industry Association’s (DIA) annual meeting held in June 2012, the TMF Reference Model Working Group released TMF reference model 2.0, which included significant updates from the group’s 2010, 1.0 release.

99. Marken Delivers In Spite Of A Dry Ice Disruption In Moscow 5/7/2013

    In August of 2010, both dry ice factories in Moscow, Russia were shut down for an unplanned technical upgrade. At the same time the weather in the region was unusually hot (40°C, 104°F) which placed a higher than normal demand for dry ice to keep frozen shipments within the required temperature range.

100. Medical Device Companies Turning To New Breed Of Supply Chain Partner 4/19/2013

     Medical Device companies are well aware of the strategic and operational impact of tougher reimbursement policies and the soon to be implemented medical device tax.