Newsletter | September 29, 2026

09.29.26 -- Geopolitical Risk Is Reshaping Clinical Trial Supply Chains

FEATURED EDITORIAL

Root Causes, Part 2: The Translation Problem Behind Clinical Trial Execution

This second installment of our Root Causes video series explores how protocol assumptions can create downstream operational and clinical supply challenges.

 

What Is "Demand" When There Are No Sales?

Clinical-stage companies have no sales history, but they still have demand. Here’s how to uncover the four streams driving supply planning before material gets tight.

 

The End Of Just-In-Time? Why Clinical Trial Supply Chains Are Rethinking Inventory Strategy

Clinical trials are too unpredictable for inventory strategies built on fixed assumptions. Learn why agility, visibility and smarter buffers are becoming essential to supply planning.

 

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

 

Demand-Led Clinical Supply For Global Product Pooling

See how a global biopharmaceutical company was able to address inefficiencies and reduce waste within the clinical supply chain for a high-value therapy that faced strong demand but limited supply.

MORE GREAT EDITORIAL

Geopolitical Risk Is Reshaping Clinical Trial Supply Chains

Rising geopolitical risk and fuel volatility are breaking clinical supply assumptions, forcing new strategies to protect trial timelines, patient access, and product integrity.

The Atlantic Divide: Forcing FDA Demographics Onto European Supply Chains

FDA demographic mandates can upend global trial supply, stranding inventory, driving panic packaging, and creating hidden bias that undermines study execution.

Expanding Clinical Trials In Africa Without Disruption

A structured five-layer framework helps sponsors expand clinical trials in Africa with clarity, reducing risk, strengthening governance, and improving ROI.