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Last year, global healthcare consulting firm Salient Advisory surveyed more than 80 companies across four African countries for a report emphasizing the growth of startups digitizing the continent’s health supply chain and distribution and regulatory frameworks governing e-pharmacy activities. This time, the firm went deeper into Africa’s health supply chain segment, broadening the scope of its research and making some tweaks. For one, it searched for startups across 54 countries (compared to four from last year) and…

Structural chokepoints correspond to the freight transit hubs within the United States in 2017. a, Structural chokepoints for the FAF-scale aggregated agri-food network. b, Structural chokepoints for the county-scale aggregated agri-food network. c, Logistics sector revenue (in US$) computed with the data in Supplementary Table 2 at the county scale. Darker red indicates higher logistics sector revenue—the freight transit hubs within the United States.…

Smaller businesses are struggling to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, while large rivals are expanding to new markets. Smaller businesses are struggling to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, while large rivals are expanding to new markets. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all…

Supply chain expense by expense category. Credit: Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (2022). DOI: 10.1108/JHLSCM-03-2022-0039 When it comes to delivering humanitarian aid, 75 percent of the costs involved stem from supply chain management. Consequently, if focused savings measures were implemented throughout the supply chain, more of the money donated, and therefore more urgently needed help, could…

Safeway and Supervalu knew they were wrong in seeking list-price reimbursement for discounted medications, justices say. Safeway and Supervalu knew they were wrong in seeking list-price reimbursement for discounted medications, justices say. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all…

This image from ESA’s Mars Express shows the southern flanks of Ascraeus Mons, the second-tallest volcano on Mars. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU BerlinThe <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>Mars</div><div class=glossaryItemBody>Mars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. It is a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. Iron oxide is prevalent in Mars' surface…

When a measure of strains on global supply chains fell earlier this year to levels last seen before the Covid-19 pandemic, it signaled to some that the product shortages, port bottlenecks and shipping disruptions of the past three years were over and that a new era of stability was on the horizon.But industry experts say a “return to normal,” as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York described its Global Supply Chain Pressure Index in February, hardly means that companies are going back to conventional, some would say…

Workflow created to calculate supply chain complexity indices. a Illustration of the supply network for pharmaceutical products in the United States in 2012. Although not shown for clarity, the network includes international connections to the rest of the world via eight different world regions. The nodes in the network correspond to the 115 United States regions in our dataset. The node size represents the total supply inflows to a node (in-strength),…

Ecommerce major Amazon removed six million counterfeit items globally from the supply chain in 2022, the company said in a report on Tuesday. The ecommerce firm said that it stopped over 800,000 attempts to create new selling accounts in 2022, preventing bad actors from publishing a single product for sale. The figure has come down from 2.5 million attempts in 2021, and 6 million attempts in 2020. "The strategic combination of industry-leading technology and experts are successfully stopping bad actors and making an…

The growing popularity of crispy chicken sandwiches has left restaurants chasing a relatively rare bird: small chickens. Restaurant companies, including KFC and Chick-fil-A Inc., have come to prize chickens that weigh about 4 pounds, a slimmer bird than the big-breasted varieties that have come to dominate the U.S. chicken industry.  Some fast-food chain executives say the smaller-size birds that are often used for sandwiches and chicken-on-the bone offerings are more tender and flavorful than their bigger counterparts.…