A Prescription for Healing the Healthcare Supply Chain
Supply Chain Brain February 28, 2023
Global logistics took a traumatic hit over the last three years, and the impact lingers on even now. For many supply chain professionals, however, it was evident that vital indicators were flashing danger even before the outbreak.
The U.S.-China trade war in 2018, after years of offshoring production to low-cost countries like China, revealed cracks in longstanding, just-in-time supply chain models. When the pandemic came along, logistics capacity shortfalls combined with unexpected peaks and valleys in demand to cause shortages throughout global supply chains.
Now, we’ve turned the corner into 2023. And the healing starts.
The prescription for getting well lies in a true partnership between healthcare logistics and the supply chain. When it comes to meeting customer needs,...