Healthcare Supply Chain 2015

The Health Industry Distributors Association launched the Thought Leaders initiative to provide insights to its members on the unprecedented changes occurring in healthcare markets. HIDA enlisted McKinsey & Company to conduct in-depth interviews with dozens of healthcare provider executives across healthcare settings. HIDA’s own Thought Leaders then met with the McKinsey team to evaluate the provider input and develop recommendations for the industry as a whole.

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California Cartage Company

"Since 1944, when California Cartage Company made its first delivery, it has become an industry leader in trucking, warehousing, and deconsolidation. With its multiple logistics companies,California Cartage Company operates over 1,200 trucks and over 4.25 million square feet of warehouse space throughout the United States and Mexico. Owner and operator of multiple highly-specialized logistics divisions with operations nationwide. Services including, but not limited to: import trucking, warehousing, deconsolidation, and distribution Innovative industry leader in sustainability with: the largest fleet of green trucks in the LA/LGB harbors, over 380,000 square feet of solar panels producing over 3 million kWh of energy annually, paperless processing, and more! Proprietary and innovative IT Solutions for customized solutions. Strategic partnerships maintained with shippers, beneficial cargo owners, ocean carriers, intermodal companies, Customs house brokers, and freight for

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Will Robotic Automation Lead to a Lights-Out-Warehouse

whitePaper | March 16, 2022

What is lights-out warehousing? The simple answer is a facility without people. One that relies entirely on automated equipment, to the point that no manual touches are necessary. With no employees required on the floor, operations do not need to turn the lights on, hence the term “lights-out warehousing.”

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Secure Software Supply Chains

whitePaper | January 4, 2023

Major cyber-attacks such as the SolarWinds and Kaseya incidents demonstrate the need to focus significantly more on software supply chain security as well as traditional cyber defense areas. Avoiding the code tampering that occurred in both of those attacks by criminals and internal parties is essential. This whitepaper looks at how to increase security throughout the Software Development Lifecycle and implement a multi-layered, defense-indepth code tampering prevention and detection strategy.

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DATA SCIENCE FOR SUPPLY CHAIN

whitePaper | July 29, 2022

From Master Data driving ERP software to real-time IoT streams enabling fine grain tracking and optimization, Data is omnipresent when dealing with Supply Chain processes. However, the abundant information is not always leveraged to actually improve the overall flow. Often locked away in specialized software, siloed between departments of the same company or simply not made accessible to business practitioners, the premise of a data-driven Supply Chain falls short of expectations. At IRIS by Argon & Co, we help our clients to build high-performing global Supply Chains by leveraging the power and benefits of Data S

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Trends in Task Automation

whitePaper | June 15, 2022

The global logistics industry of the 21st century has been defined by large global Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) investing in efficiency. One of the main drivers of this has been a slow but steady deployment of software driven task automation; the replacement of repetitive tasks traditionally carried out by an employee with software that automatically performs those functions. These investments have dramatically improved the efficiency of global LSPs and forever reshaped the ways in which they move freight.

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Managing Risk In An Uncertain World

whitePaper | January 27, 2023

Construction is risky business. But while construction businesses have always had to navigate a high level of risk, recent challenges have made matters worse. From a qualified worker shortage to supply chain issues to the rising costs of labor and materials to the physical demands of the job, each new construction project brings with it a new set of issues. This makes risk management a critical skill for every AEC business to have.

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Decarbonising Healthcare Supply Chains

whitePaper | November 17, 2022

The climate crisis is one of the most pressing risks to global health: [1] rising temperatures are resulting in an increase in hospital admissions and heat-related deaths; extreme weather events such as flooding and droughts are disrupting food systems, displacing people, and undermining access to healthcare; and changing patterns of water-borne and vector-borne diseases are threatening decades of progress in infectious disease control.[2] Climate change is also exacerbating the incidence of many non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses, through increased air pollution, extreme heat, and other factors.[

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Spotlight

California Cartage Company

"Since 1944, when California Cartage Company made its first delivery, it has become an industry leader in trucking, warehousing, and deconsolidation. With its multiple logistics companies,California Cartage Company operates over 1,200 trucks and over 4.25 million square feet of warehouse space throughout the United States and Mexico. Owner and operator of multiple highly-specialized logistics divisions with operations nationwide. Services including, but not limited to: import trucking, warehousing, deconsolidation, and distribution Innovative industry leader in sustainability with: the largest fleet of green trucks in the LA/LGB harbors, over 380,000 square feet of solar panels producing over 3 million kWh of energy annually, paperless processing, and more! Proprietary and innovative IT Solutions for customized solutions. Strategic partnerships maintained with shippers, beneficial cargo owners, ocean carriers, intermodal companies, Customs house brokers, and freight for

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