Deborah Kaplan

Amazon is synonymous with fast shipping, but many people don’t see or think about the company’s warehousing strategy. The key to one- or two-day delivery is not faster shipping; it is storing inventory in the right locations and quantities so it can get to the end customer quickly.
To facilitate high-speed delivery for merchants, fulfillment platform Flowspace built a network of warehouses and connected them with intelligent software. The result is one of the country’s largest warehousing and...

For e-commerce companies of any size, shipping can be one of the most complicated areas of the business to navigate. To start, shipping carriers have their own rules. And while they may often seem similar on the surface, the devil is in the details. Those rule variances can already be fairly complex when shipping domestically. But with international shipping, there’s a greater number of factors involved. Those factors can include aspects such as size and weight differences, delivery service l...

Patients with advanced or metastatic bladder cancer, after responding to initial treatment with chemotherapy, may preserve their health improvements by starting immunotherapy immediately.
When Christopher Schade noticed blood in his urine in 2010, he found himself at the beginning of a long and challenging road.
A urologist found a tumor in his bladder, and Schade, now 66, received a diagnosis of urothelial cancer, the most common form of bladder cancer. The doctor removed the tumor and inser...

Converting bottles to recycled plastic. Redesigning baby lotion bottles to ditch the pump. Swapping out the black Listerine cap for a clear resin one. Reducing the dimensions of cartons holding Carefree pads and o.b. tampons to use less paper.
These are some of the changes Johnson & Johnson will make in an effort to convert its consumer health products packaging to sustainable options.
The goal is for J&J's consumer brands to use 100% recyclable, reusable or compostable plastic packaging, and...

New year, new goals. Those goals can be the usual ones, to exercise more and eat healthier or to read more books, but financial goals should be on the list every year. No matter where you’re starting from a financial perspective, you can always make tweaks. Here’s a step-by-step plan to create and follow through on your New Year’s financial goals.
Personal Financial Assessment
You can’t know where to go if you don’t know where you are now. Create a list, writing down your assets (how much is ...

Review your 401(k) investments regularly to ensure you’re not missing out on opportunities to increase your retirement income.
Consider your current and future tax situation when making 401(k) and other retirement investment decisions.
Some lesser known investing strategies to consider include rolling over your 401(k) while still working, contributing to an Individual 401(k) if self-employed, and using a Roth 401(k) if your earnings are too high for a Roth IRA.
For most Americans, an employer...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors blocking CTLA-4 or PD-1/PD-L1 often provide durable antitumor benefits to certain patients who respond to them; however, the percentage of responders is low, around 15% to 25%.1 Investigators are hopeful that agents targeting other checkpoint molecules, along with combinations of immunotherapies, can fill that gap to provide broader therapeutic coverage. One of the more promising targets of checkpoint inhibitors currently in early trials is TIGIT (T-cell immunorec...

In Ohio's Appalachian area, a handful of counties have no mammogram facilities.1 Several have no hospitals. Some community health centers are ably staffed by midlevel health care professionals but have no physicians, said Electra Paskett, PhD, director of Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center–James in Columbus. Not all of Ohio’s 50 rural counties have access to ride-sharing services or public transportation, and money can be lacking for gas, she said. Some patients in rural counti...

RWE research is changing how medications and medical devices are approved and paid for. It’s nipping at the heels of the randomized clinical trial that remains the standard by which all medical research is judged. And RWE proponents are covetously eyeing the mountains of data that patient Fitbits, Apple watches and other devices could produce.

Ecommerce companies sending out goods to customers need pack services. They can do the order fulfillment themselves, or they can outsource it to fulfillment centers. There are pros and cons to each ecommerce fulfillment strategy but understanding the fulfillment process will help your company decide which to use, and what to look for if you decide to contract with a fulfillment warehouse.
It’s important to understand the high-level supply chain picture in how an order makes...

If your company is still sending and receiving documents to business partners by email or snail mail, you’re wasting a lot of time and hurting your supply chain efficiency. That means you’re also wasting money. Electronic data interchange (EDI) allows your company to exchange business documents computer-to-computer. The most common uses for EDI are purchase orders and invoices. But with supply chain, EDI is also commonly used for advanced ship notices, inventory documents, ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has widened acceptance of telehealth, for both healthcare providers and patients. Many healthcare organizations scrambled to implement telehealth as lockdowns occurred throughout the country, while others already had systems in place and needed to scale them up – in a big way. Some were new to the technology, adopting a trial-by-fire approach by necessity. While the pandemic continues, healthcare organizations are opening back up, but realizing that telehealth is here to...

In many industries, we’re sold solutions based on business needs. In healthcare, these solutions may help us manage population health or the claims process, for example. At Maven Wave, we argue that the platform is of primary importance and set up in a scalable fashion to quickly provide several solutions based on needs. We previously shared how data enabled healthcare systems to get ahead of COVID-19, but now we will dive into the specifics of how to build an effective a data platform.
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