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Record W4409054199 · doi:10.33423/jabe.v27i2.7581

Pharmaceutical Supply Chains: Risks, Challenges and Strategic Response

2025· article· en· W4409054199 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Avninder Gill

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Applied Business and Economics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicSupply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
Canadian institutionsThompson Rivers University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBusinessSupply chainSupply chain risk managementRisk analysis (engineering)Industrial organizationProcess managementSupply chain managementMarketingService management

Abstract

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A pharmaceutical supply chain consists of sourcing of ingredients and technology, production, distribution and delivery mechanisms to provide medicines and supplies to patients and healthcare facilities in a cost effective and timely manner. This paper introduces the structure of pharmaceutical supply chains within the larger context of health care supply chains and provides discussion on past work and the emerging trends in pharmaceutical supply chains. The paper further explores the unique operational challenges and strategic issues faced by the pharmaceutical supply chains. The paper further proposes a strategic response framework and a mapping tool to deal with these risks and challenges.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.036

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0030.006
Scholarly communication0.0100.009
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0040.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.270
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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