Logistics Live: Conversations & Insights on the Global Supply Chain

Logistics Live: Conversations & Insights on the Global Supply Chain

What does it take to keep a global supply chain running smoothly? To keep business - and life - moving ahead? Hear from global logistics leaders who reveal the stories, solutions and secrets behind making the impossible happen every day.

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November 19, 2024 24 mins

Today we continue our conversation with Arno Veldkamp and Graham Hunter on Energy Supply Chain logistics. Arno is Head of Client Relationship Management Automotive & Energy at Quick Logistics; Graham is Global Key Account Manager – Project Logistics at Kuehne+Nagel. 

In Part 1, they described the incredible lengths to which energy companies go to resource and access glob...

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Energy, of course, powers the world. And harnessing that energy is an extraordinarily challenging task, involving massive equipment and sensitive parts that must travel to and from the furthest reaches of the globe. From oil rigs in the North Sea to wind farms off the U.S. coast, securing historical and renewable forms of energy requires precise, reliable, and innovative global supply chain logistics.

So what, exactly is required? ...

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In this episode, Driving change: Adapting to the evolving automotive supply chain – we tackle the historical global nature of the automotive supply chain and potential country-specific, regional and global impacts. What might this mean for future investment in U.S. infrastructure – especially around semiconductors and the ever-growing role of Electric Vehicles? And how do all these factors affect everyt...

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Today we continue our conversation with Mike Sweeney, Global Head of Strategy for Cell & Gene Therapies and Direct to Patient products at QuickSTAT Global Life Science Logistics, on how to set up a robust CGT supply chain. 

In Part 1, Mike described the explosion of cell and gene therapies registered for clinical trials – plus the hope and supply chain logistics challenges that growth provides. 

In Part 2, Mike discusses the be...

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Cell & Gene Therapies hold incredible potential for improving – if not saving – human lives. These CGT’s have been called “living drugs” and can heal diseased organs and – we hope – fight diseases that currently have no cure. 

Because of these incredible possibilities, related research and development is growing exponentially around the globe, with increasing numbers of complex clinical trials – complex because they require com...

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In Part 2 of our conversation, Scott Ohanesian, QuickSTAT’s senior VP of Commercial Operations, and Mike Sweeney, QuickSTAT's Global Head of Strategy for CGT and Direct to Patient Products discuss the various challenges around the logistics of Cell & Gene Therapy – what to look out for and the importance of being prepared.

We also look forward and consider not only the s...

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Medical care and scientific research offer some of the most challenging – and developing – areas for global supply chain logistics. And few are more significant– in terms of potential for improving human life and logistics precision required – than Cell & Gene Therapy or CGT.

These CGT “medical miracles” bring logistics opportunities and challenges, around timing, temper...

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In Part 2, Mike Sweeney, QuickSTAT’s Global Head of Strategy for CGT and Direct to Patient products, offers specific supply chain design ideas and tactics to establish processes and overcome potential logistics roadblocks. He breaks down extraordinary case studies, and gives his views on what’s next – particularly around regulation.

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Critically ill patients increasingly can participate in life saving and life changing cell & gene therapy clinical trials without having to leave their homes with the Direct- to -Patient and Direct- from -Patient model. So how do you set up these supply chains? How do you mitigate risk? And how do you ensure they’re resilient? Mike Sweeney, QuickSTAT’s Global Head of Strategy for CGT and Direct to Patient products, explains.

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