Sustainable Procurement & CSR News - Pharmaceutical Industry

The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain in 2021 will require Robust Solutions

Pharmaceutical SCM has become more unpredictable and basic in current digital world situation. It holds the life-saving guarantee of individuals and demands the participation of distinct partners. It includes pharma manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, customers, and regulatory agencies. Notwithstanding COVID-19, supply chains have significantly been disrupted owing to nation-wide limitations all around the world. This supply chain disturbance has left challenges in the pharmaceutical industry, require to reexamine supply chain management and robust solution.

The challenges of increased market demand and stricter legislation increase the demand for more efficient, flexible, and specific Pharmaceutical SCM software. Today, Pharma distributors must have to move products to their customers an exact time or faster while maintaining lower inventory levels. Also, Meta-Pharma – Pharmaceutical ERP software helps to improve supply chain management, customer relations, vendor agreements, identification of slow-moving, and out-of-stock items, and inventory data.

healthcare resources at all levels are being directed toward fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. While this has resulted in encouraging progress, many non-coronavirus patients are finding it difficult to access care due to limited available resources, while others avoid seeking in-person medical treatment for fear of exposure to the virus.

This trend is especially concerning among patients in need of chronic care, who account for 76% of all physician visits. For those with chronic diseases, failure to access care can lead to high-acuity care episodes, a situation that is dangerous and disruptive to patients, in addition to being costly for patients, payors, and providers alike.

To avoid these negative outcomes, and to preserve specialist availability and critical health care resources, health care organizations must find ways to provide safe access to primary care for patients with chronic conditions. One potential avenue for providing this care is through the use of eConsults and other forms of telehealth for chronic care management.

Health care practitioners and professionals are central to the world’s defeat of COVID-19, as well as to our societies’ ability to recover from this global health and economic crisis. These workers require a safe work environment even when scenarios are changing rapidly, and that is why a set of ethical principles that embraces health worker safety can be so important.

The economic shutdown under the Covid-19 pandemic has had two monumental impacts on our environment. It has improved our air and water quality dramatically, and slashed our material consumption, water usage and waste production.

Data from the CPCB (Central Pollution Control Board) and the UPPCB (Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board) shows that the Ganga’s water along its most polluted stretch in Uttar Pradesh is carrying more dissolved oxygen and less nitrates. These conditions are conducive to survival of aquatic life. Its biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) has correspondingly fallen, along with the concentration of total coliform, which is a testament to improved water quality. Similar positive developments have been reported for the Yamuna.

A survey by medical software provider Kyruus of 1,000 adult patients found that nearly three quarters had tried virtual care during the COVID crisis and more than 75 percent were very or completely satisfied with their experience.

At present, all surgical and FFP2 face masks must be thrown away after a few hours of use. To offset the shortage of protective equipment, scientists, physicians and manufacturers are working together to explore ways to reuse them safely. Professor Philippe Cinquin provides an overview of the methods being tested by this consortium.