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First, a Primer about Specialty Drugs In previous blogs, we have mentioned that specialty pharmaceuticals are on the rise.  Since 1990, the number of specialty drug approvals has increased dramatically.  What characteristics are used to define if a pharmaceutical...

Beyond Meat Burgers Finally Fixed for Fast Food After the April announcement that Burger King would test the vegan burger Beyond Meat in 59 locations in the St. Louis area and successful sales by Carl’s Jr. in 1000 locations since January, Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown...

Target Tempts Shoppers with Same-Day Delivery Target now offers same-day delivery service in 47 U.S. States, facilitated by the Shipt same-day delivery platform.  Although a Shipt account is no longer required, the service costs $9.99 per order or a $99 annual...

FedEx Ground to Debut New 7 Day a Week Residential Delivery Service In an effort to keep pace with Amazon Prime’s one day delivery service, FedEx recently announced that FedEx Ground will begin seven day a week residential delivery service for most of the United...

Driven by a need for convenience and personalization, Canadian customers have embraced online shopping  but have been a bit slower to do so than American consumers.  Even with the success of e-tailing, Canadian merchants have been disinclined to adapt to the wave of...

Auto Manufacturer Ford to Eliminate 7,000 White Collar Jobs by August American auto maker Ford recently revealed plans to decrease approximately 10 percent of its global workforce by cutting 7,000 white collar jobs by August.  The savings of $600 million annually...

Worldwide, the ecommerce business is certainly booming.  Globally, e-commerce retail sales are anticipated to grow from 2.3 trillion U.S. dollars in 2017 to nearly 4.9 trillion U.S. in 2021.  As of 2018, the Canadian e-commerce market had expanded to nearly 1.6...

Contract packaging is in its heyday for many types of products. The contract packaging and manufacturing industries have changed and become more fast-paced and demand-driven than in the past.  Today, both contract packagers and contract manufacturers need to make sure...

Record High Imports Anticipated in Advance of Next Round of China Tariffs New threats of U.S. tariffs on the remaining 325 billion dollars of goods imported from China is anticipated to cause a huge increase of imports from China this spring and summer.  Goods shipped...

Pig “Ebola” Sends Shock Waves through Supply Chain The first incidence of African swine fever in China occurred last August on a farm with less than 400 hogs on the outskirts of Shenyang.  Although emergency measures were implemented and the outbreak was pronounced to...

In case you missed it, heavy hitters from outside the traditional healthcare industry are invading, working hard to disrupt a market that needs a makeover.  From retailers like Walmart to tech giants Google, Apple and Amazon, health care, as it is currently known to...

Will Mexico Add Tariffs as Payback for Border Slowdown? Over the past month, truck crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have been reduced to a crawl following the addition of 750 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents were reassigned to process incoming migrants...

According to PwC, the New Health Economy has come of age in 2019.  With bellies full of woe and worry, American patients may be seeing some light at the end of the MRI tunnel at some point within the foreseeable future. Transforming the highly complex health care and...

What is pharmaceutical serialization? By assigning a unique serial number to each pharmaceutical product, goods can be identified and tracked throughout the entire pharmaceutical supply chain.  Information including the product origin, shelf life and batch number...

U.S. Supply Chain:  Warehousing Trends of 2019Ready to know the latest?  2019 is shaping up to be a year filled with pressure.  From inventory levels, to the need for speed, more warehouses, more labor and more technology to the outsourcing trend that is pushing the...

Traditionally, the supply chain is linear in nature, goods are consumed and eventually discarded in the trash. The flow of goods originates with raw materials.  With today’s emphasis on sustainability and reclamation of used materials, the supply chain is adapting,...

For years, much of the buzz in the supply chain industry has been about last mile delivery and last mile logistics.  The “last mile” refers to the final stage of a delivery process, extending from a point of origin to the customer-specified destination.  The final...