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Pharma Logistics Changes Will Add Costs to Community Pharmacy – Wholesalers Will Need to Reinvent Themselves
Amgen is now the third pharma to alter its supply chain to bypass pharmacy wholesalers and deal directly with community pharmacies. This will create a “double whammy” effect in relation to community pharmacies’ overheads in that more staff time will be required to prepare orders, and wholesalers, deprived of turnover and a scale of economy, […]
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The Amazon Supermarket (and Pharmacy) Coming to a Place Near to You
Just before Christmas 2016 i2P alerted pharmacists to a global retailer (Amazon) making plans to enter the Australian market with a massive retail offering (see http://i2p.com.au/how-amazon-will-dominate-global-retail/ ) and ambitions to dominate the entire retail sector. Amazon, of course, is already known in Australia for its online retailing of books While it often seems that some […]
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A New “Social Enterprise” Wholesaler
A new generic wholesaler has formed up as a philanthropic venture designed to apply its total net profit evenly between two organisations – the Breast Cancer Network Australia and Breast Cancer Institute of Australia. This ‘social enterprise’ company is called For Benefit Medicines (FBM) and it will negotiate generic drugs under a generic label with an FBM suffix. […]