Supply chain & logistics
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Covid-19 has highlighted the need for pharmaceutical supply chains to be resilient and flexible. Building them to be agile and adaptive mitigates risk from sudden changes in supply and demand, but what are the key factors to achieve this and what lessons have been learned from the pandemic? Lynette Eyb asks supply chains expert Dr Liz Breen, director of the Digital Health Enterprise Zone at the University of Bradford.
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PE, ventilators, vaccines – they’ve been the big hitters of Covid-19, providing lifelines during a pandemic that decimated entire economies. Also high up on the list of importance, though, are the medications necessary for hospitals to treat patients – and if coverage of the pharmaceutical sector over the past two years is anything to go by, it’s not just a surprise that supply chains kept functioning, but that they functioned at all. Staving off wave after wave of infection, they adapted, defying predictions of total collapse as countless factories locked down in the face of an unimaginable global crisis. Dr Liz Breen, director of the University of Bradford’s Digital Health
Enterprise Zone, which hosted phase III trials for Novavax, has spent the past 18 months analysing pharmaceutical supply chains. She says that, despite all the odds, they were able to adapt to meet the evolving needs of healthcare professionals. “I think in general the supply chain has coped rather well during Covid. Business did continue as usual, but just in a very different way. There’s been huge demand and huge pressure with regards to certain items on the medtech side or certain drugs, but supply chains managed to cope. “Coping seems to be the word of the day – whatever coping mechanisms were put in place, whether it be sourcing new suppliers, producing
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