Xavier Initiative Aims to Develop Good Supply Practices
This article was originally published in The Gold Sheet
Executive Summary
When Xavier University convened a group of pharmaceutical manufacturing supply chain quality experts to find out why they have such problems with their suppliers, they discovered a surprising root cause: their own companies. Now they’re identifying steps the industry can take to improve the situation.
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