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The Golden Winged Warbler And Creating Pharma Supply Chain Immunity

 
• By Anju Ghangurde

Supply chain expert outlines to In Vivo how pharma can create resilient and secure supply chains and some benefits of localization.

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Pharmaceutical companies should use digital technologies to immunize their supply chain networks against threats like the coronavirus pandemic while they are still brewing on the horizon, much as a certain species of bird native to a hurricane-prone region of the US somehow knows to take off long before the high winds arrive, a leading supply chain expert recently suggested.

Robert Handfield, executive director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative and professor of supply chain management at North Carolina State...

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