Like so many consumers, I'm repeatedly amazed at what I can't find in the grocery store or at my favorite salad place. Who could have predicted there'd be regular interruptions in the supply of edamame, but not of broccoli? The healthcare industry, which accounts for nearly 20% of the U.S. economy, has not escaped these supply chain challenges.
Supply-chain instability at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic had a profound effect on the healthcare industry, highlighted by the procurement crisis in Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for frontline healthcare workers and medical equipment and pharmaceuticals for patients. Even as we begin to envision a post-pandemic future, continuing backlogs and unsustainable workarounds and rising international turmoil supply fresh evidence that supply-chain fragility is untenable. Resilience is essential.
To ensure MyMaskFit could be rolled out and mass produced it was important to secure a sustainable supply chain. This is where the WMG Supply Chain Research Group stepped in and helped MyMaskFit to create a digital solution, taking advantage of emerging distributed manufacturing.
Getting stuff where it's needed is a problem big companies deal with all the time. Now global healthcare groups are adopting some of their techniques: a number of the world's poorer countries have started to use AI-powered supply-chain management tools to help people get better access to testing and treatment.
A multi-billion dollar supply chain management programme for US veteran healthcare has come under pressure to end, following claims it is out of date and poorly run.
Led by BD, the Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA), AdvaMed, Regeneron, the pharmaceutical industry, and frontline workers, the awardees were selected for driving creative solutions to a myriad of obstacles presented by COVID-19, hurricanes, and wildfires over the past year.