Managing Pfizer’s Final Mile: Patients featuring Jim Cafone

Over the last two years, supply chain professionals have been thrown into the spotlight like never before. While all of that attention brings opportunity, it is also exhausting – and the challenges seem to be never ending, especially for leaders in the pharmaceutical industry. Jim Cafone is the Vice President of Pfizer Global Supply Chain. He has responsibility for planning and delivery worldwide, including the company’s sales order management functions. Because Pfizer makes vaccines, solid dose tablets, and gene therapy treatments for rare diseases, they employ a broad range of technology platforms to support the people they think of as their last mile: patients.In this interview, Jim talks openly about what it was like to manage Pfizer’s supply chain through the COVID-19 pandemic with co-hosts Kelly Barner and Scott Luton:How his team put a plan together to roll out the COVID-19 vaccineSome of the operational hurdles they faced and how they overcame themExamples of ongoing Pfizer innovation and his advice for new graduates entering the field of global supply chainAdditional Links & Resources:Learn more about Supply Chain Now: https://supplychainnow.comCheck out our new Supply Chain Now Media Kit: https://bit.ly/3zKRLyLSubscribe to Supply Chain Now and all other Supply Chain Now programs: https://supplychainnow.com/subscribeLeveraging Logistics and Supply Chain for Ukraine: https://vectorgl.com/stand-with-ukraine/2022 Q2 U.S. Bank Freight Payment Index: https://freight.usbank.comWEBINAR- How to Use Data to Improve Fulfillment Operations with Kosmas Karadimitriou: https://bit.ly/3KfEC5wWEBINAR- How to Operationalize Supply Chain Resilience to Create Value in the Supply Chain: https://bit.ly/3QI6OjMWEBINAR- Case Study: How Crocs Digitized their Financial Supply Chain: https://bit.ly/3wmLpVdWEBINAR- Better Business Outcomes with Blockchain: Digital Document Provenance: https://bit.ly/3ch6YQyWEBINAR- Why Choose Between Reducing Risk or Optimizing Costs? https://bit.ly/3KkCN7FThis episode is hosted by Scott Luton and Kelly Barner. For additional information, please visit our dedicated show page at: https://supplychainnow.com/managing-pfizer-final-mile-patients-971