Aggregation: Pineberry Manufacturing creates a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Parent-Child Relationship

A large international pharmaceutical company contacted Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Pharmaceutical company desperately needed to serialize its products, support traceability throughout its supply chain and aggregate erect cartons, all to comply with the USA FDA Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), the EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), and other market requirements worldwide. The...

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Gattorna to receive CSCMP Distinguished Service Award

In recognition of his groundbreaking work on supply chain design and dynamic alignment, Dr. John Gattorna has been selected to receive the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’ (CSCMP) 2018 Distinguished Service Award (DSA). Gattorna will accept the award, which is one of the profession’s highest honors, on October 1 at CSCMP’s Annual EDGE Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Unaware that he had...

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The route to no-touch planning: Taking the human error out of supply-chain planning

Supply-chain planning keeps getting harder and more time-consuming, with the consumer goods sector as one of the most extreme examples. The causes are familiar: Online retailing’s endless shelf encourages consumers to be ever more demanding, yielding product portfolios that are ever more complex and lifecycles that are ever shorter. Retailers continue to increase their service and delivery requirements,...

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