B2B Data Integration and Transformation Blog

Before Covid-19 began its march across the globe in early March of 2020, the U.S. economy was surging, and unemployment was at a post WWII-era low of 3.8% according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

If you’re strategizing with your LOB colleagues and decision makers at your company about how to level up your B2B integration capabilities, you’re not alone.

For the past several years, "digital transformation" and "digital maturity" have been thrown about (sometimes correctly, sometimes not). Some firms have ignored those concepts, believing that they didn’t apply to them, or they weren’t ready for that transition. However, it's become clear that now is the time to embark on a digital transformation as well as to increase your firm's digital maturity.

What would you say is the biggest problem in the pharma supply chain today? Some might point to ever-growing complexity, changing customer demand, cybersecurity threats, as well as stricter regulations. However, the right answer isn’t any one of those things – it’s a combination of all of them.

The supply chain used to be far simpler: it was linear, and you most likely did business with companies that were fairly local to you. That’s not the case today; the supply chain (and especially the healthcare supply chain) is dynamic and interconnected.