The pandemic spurred enormous growth in Cyber Monday sales, can supply chains keep up with the new normal, reports Biz Tech Magazine

Cyber Monday has now surpassed Black Friday as the biggest retail spending day in the United States. In 2019, both events saw record-breaking revenues, but Cyber Monday outpaced brick-and-mortar sales by nearly $2 billion, reaching a massive $9.4 billion.

GS1 US has appointed the following executives to the GS1 US Board of Governors: Charles Schafer, Ph.D., engineering director, Google; and Yossi Zomet, vice president, product and engineering, eBay, Inc.

Europe is scrambling to reconfigure its pharmaceutical supply chain for the Covid vaccine, report Chemical and Engineering News. 

When the COVID-19 pandemic exposed weaknesses in the pharmaceutical supply chain in the US—in particular its dependence on products outsourced to Asia—the government responded forcefully.