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Drug Supply Chain Security Act: Is Your Warehouse Ready for Item-Level Serialization?
The Right Solution Will Increase the Efficiency of Your Distribution Operations This article was originally published by Supply Chain Digest. View the article here. As 2017 quickly approaches, pharmaceutical companies are gearing up for the next phase of compliance...
How Agile is Your Supply Chain?
The term agile is used today to describe many corporate tasks, including the way in which employees complete their to-do lists. In general, it means “readiness to change.” From a Supply Chain perspective, agility entails the ability to respond quickly to a switch in...
Supply Network Integration: Gain More Than Just Visibility
This is Post IV in an ACSIS Content Series on Supply Chain Visibility in an Outsourced World. Read the first three posts: Breaking down the barriers to supply chain partner visibility The Partner Visibility Puzzle: What Is the Missing Piece? The harsh realities of not...
The Harsh Realities of not Integrating with Supply Chain Partners
This is Post III in an ACSIS Content Series on Supply Chain Visibility in an Outsourced World. Read the first post here and the second post here. Because they aren’t truly connected, manufacturers are using a variety of costly workarounds, but they aren’t having much...
The Partner Visibility Puzzle: What is the Missing Piece?
This is Post II of an ACSIS Content Series on Supply Chain Visibility in an Outsourced World. Read the first post here. So-called “hub” manufacturers – those who own the production of goods for customers – are increasingly relying on third-party suppliers to support...
Supplier Integration and Collaboration: Four Steps to Getting Your Partners on Board
Important Considerations for Choosing a Solution that Your Partner Will Use This article was originally published by Supply Chain Digest. View the article here. For most manufacturers today, outsourcing has moved beyond the traditional supplier relationships to...
Breaking Down the Barriers to Supply Chain Partner Visibility
A few months ago, ACSIS (in partnership with Supply Chain Digest) surveyed 110 supply chain executives in chemical, food & beverage, consumer products, pharmaceutical, and other manufacturing sectors to uncover the priorities, expectations and challenges of...
Which Comes First? Supply Chain Digitization or Partner Integration?
It seems like everywhere you turn, there’s a new article, post or study on the digitization of the supply chain, and with good reason! More and more companies are focusing on digitizing their supply chain to better keep up with customer demand, improve productivity,...
DSCSA Compliance… Made Easy, Quick and Affordable
Still wondering how to achieve compliance with the upcoming DSCSA (Drug Supply Chain Security Act) requirements without blowing your budget and tying up resources? If so, consider this: an efficient, simple and cost-effective solution that handles serialized product,...
The Tactical View: What’s Missing in Today’s Supplier Integration Market
Suppliers Need Tactical, Real-Time Information to Change or Improve Supply Chain Processes This article was originally published by Supply Chain Digest. View the article here. In the days of legacy tech and early ERP systems, Excel spreadsheets were a perfectly...
Supply Chain Partner Visibility: Are We There Yet?
According to an ACSIS survey done in partnership with Supply Chain Digest, most manufacturers are not even close. At SAP in the 90s, we led the led the charge to "integrate” for enterprise visibility. But today, the enterprise has become more complex and...
Eliminating the Barriers to Supply Network Visibility
It’s no secret that manufacturers continue to outsource more of their supply chain to third parties, but how are they dealing with integration challenges caused by a lack of visibility? What technologies are they putting in place to get near real-time status for goods...