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The Friday Report: May 24th, 2019
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...
Tips for Developing an E-Commerce Logistics Strategy for the Canadian Market
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...
E-Commerce Mass Customization, Contract Packaging and Inventory Management
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...
The Friday Report: May 17th, 2019
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...
The Friday Report: May 10th, 2019
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...
Transforming U.S. Healthcare in the New Health Economy: Part 2
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...
The Friday Report: May 3rd, 2019
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...
Transforming U.S. Healthcare in the New Health Economy: Part 1
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...
The Case for Pharmaceutical Serialization and Aggregation
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...
The Friday Report: April 26th, 2019
FDA Announces Plans to Pilot New Technologies In an effort to make the pharmaceutical supply chain fully interoperable, the FDA has revealed plans to use innovative technologies to help in the track and trace of pharmaceutical products. New technologies including...