We’ve all had to adapt to a new normal during COVID-19, and those of us in the healthcare supply chain have had to adapt more than most. But the real question we have to answer now is: how can we take what we’ve learned and apply it to inventory management overall?
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Hospitals should be sharing more information than ever right now. Should they also be sharing more information than they are?
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COVID-19 - and the response to it - can seem like a domino effect of unprecedented disasters. How do the facts back up - or refute - that sentiment?
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The often-revisited metaphor of the "one weak link" causing the entire supply chain to fail was in some ways proved correct this year.
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