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Handfield wasn’t arguing that the global sprawl of current supply chains is the problem. Multinational enterprises exist because of the ease of moving goods through seas and skies – and, blocked canals notwithstanding, they aren’t about to forget that fact. The global system worked so well for so long because companies were happy to share the same roads, rails, flightpaths and shipping lanes. More than that, it still works: European ports, which use open data-sharing platforms for planning and visibility purposes, are not experiencing the same backlogs as their fragmented US counterparts, which the Washington Post recently compared with independent “fiefdoms”.


By scrambling for complete ownership of their own supply chains, protectionist countries risk worsening the problem. Rather than ramping up the trade wars and closing off supply chains, Handfield wants stakeholders to commit to making them more visible. Both he and Mark Treshock, IBM’s global solution leader for blockchain in healthcare and life sciences, believe building back better after Covid-19 means expanding what constitutes a public utility.


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For Handfield, the utilities are the vaccines and PPE stocks themselves. At the Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing summit hosted by the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) and Chatham House in March 2021, he proposed building a global visibility system that could provide all the key information on supply and demand to a third-party adjudicator or control tower like the WTO, which would then act as a “traffic cop”, directing flows of materials to and from different parts of the world depending on their requirements and manufacturing capacities. “The point that I’m making is that people have to think more holistically,” he explains. “The vaccine should be a utility. It’s not a matter of competitive advantage anymore or intellectual property. This vaccine is going to be here to stay and, unless we are able to get it out to every country in the world quickly, we’re going to continue to get variants and we’re going to continue to have shortfalls in the global economy. If we don’t think of it this way, it’s going to be lights out for everybody.” On the other side, a global visibility system would help companies avoid the overproduction issues that have left some PPE and ventilator suppliers with mountains of excess stock. Even so, Handfield fears that private companies are unlikely to share information on their inventory, production capacity and actual production, much less give a third party the authority to manage where and how they ship their products. Enter Treshock. Through its work on FDA blockchain pilots, which were based on its Food Trust platform, IBM believes it has developed an understanding of how to make track and trace technologies work at scale across the healthcare supply chain: by adapting to its structure.


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