Nicholas Jacobus

LogiPharma USA 2025: Challenges Currently Impacting the Temperature-Controlled Space

In a recent panel discussion on supply chain security, Krenar Komoni, founder and CEO of Tive, emphasized the growing importance of collaboration among vendors, logistics providers, and technology companies to combat evolving threats in the industry. The conversation highlighted two main types of theft impacting the supply chain: direct theft, where goods are physically stolen from trailers or containers, and strategic theft, a more sophisticated form involving social engineering tactics where fake carriers impersonate legitimate ones to intercept shipments.

To address these risks, panelists discussed a multi-layered security approach. Tools like carrier vetting software, GPS trackers, seals, and even armed escorts were identified as part of a tiered defense system. Komoni stressed that no single solution can fully secure a supply chain; rather, companies must integrate multiple protective measures into their operations to build resilience.

A major highlight of the discussion was the shift in the pharmaceutical industry from passive monitoring to real-time tracking, accelerated by new technologies like the Solo Pro device. This transition enhances visibility and responsiveness in managing high-value or sensitive shipments.The panel also explored how closer partnerships between logistics providers, shippers, and tech firms are strengthening the supply chain. This “triangle” of collaboration allows for better implementation and use of advanced technologies, increasing trust and efficiency across the board.

Looking ahead, Komoni noted that AI and automation will play a larger role in supply chain security, helping to predict threats and streamline operations in a rapidly evolving environment. The session concluded with a clear takeaway: securing the supply chain requires continuous adaptation, strong relationships, and layered, technology-driven solutions.

A transcript of Komoni’s conversation with 

What challenges are currently impacting the temperature-controlled space?

 So the temperature control space and all the various companies, especially in the pharmaceutical side, they're going through a transition phase, which I call it, going from passive to real time. And it's taking its time. And I wish we were there sooner, but there's a lot of reasons why we're not there yet. Technology providers haven't moved as fast we're finally just for instance, with dive, we released a solo pro device, which is a pharma specific real time tracker that meets all the 21 CFR Part 11 requirements. It's GXP compliant. And to be able to move everything from passive to real time, it's gonna take a little bit longer time. Call it another 12 months, maybe 24 to 36 months max. But this is one of the challenges right now, is this transition, and what comes with this transition as everything becomes more real time. Now, various workflow automations that need to be in place suddenly can actually work. And with AI and these workflow automations, customers are going to be able to get benefit from the real time data and see their costs go down, their quality go up, and customer experience improve.

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Krenar Komoni, founder and CEO of Tive, highlights the transition in pharma from passive to real-time temperature control, noting delays in technology adoption but emphasizing how AI and automation will soon drive cost savings, improved quality, and stronger customer experience.

LogiPharma USA 2025: How The Pharmaceutical Industry Collaborates to Boost Resilience Across The Global Supply Network

 How is the industry collaborating in order to help ensure that there is a boost in resilience across the global supply network?

 I think one area that we really see the close collaboration is logistics service providers working very closely with shippers, which they've always have, but they've started to really work very closely with technology providers like Tive, and we've seen that triangle become stronger than ever before, and the reason is because they're seeing that if a logistics service provider starts to embrace the technology and actually start utilizing that technology, they can help the shipper, and the shipper can build higher trust with logistics service provider, and the technology providers can provide that technology to the logistics service provider, but the shipper gets the benefit. 

So this triangle is becoming really strong, and that collaboration, I believe it just enhances the overall industry, and makes for better experience for everybody. One thing that Chuck mentioned, which was really interesting, is like security is not a revenue-generating business, right? Or a thought like security is something you have to do, you want to do, and you want to look at various costs. And every layer that I mentioned has its own costs associated with it. But if you can start, like I said, with free where you build the trust and the relationship with all your vendors, all your logistics service providers, and then you keep adding lower cost things first, and then continue to see to at least make it more difficult for everybody to penetrate to your supply chain.

Krenar Komoni, founder and CEO of Tive, explains how the pharmaceutical industry’s transition from passive to real-time temperature control creates short-term challenges but will ultimately enable AI-driven automation, lower costs, higher quality, and better customer experiences.

LogiPharma USA 2025: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Collaborates to Boost Resilience Across the Global Supply Network

LogiPharma USA 2025: Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Security

You recently participated in a panel discussion on “Strengthening Supply Chain Security in a Dynamic Environment.” What did that conversation entail?

 The panel today was very exciting. What we were talking about is supply chain security and really around collaboration between various vendors and providing best technologies out there for security, but also helping customers understand some of the challenges that are there. So on the security side, there's really two types of theft that are occurring. 

One is direct theft, and another one is what we call strategic theft, and that's something that Chuck Forsythe talked about a little bit on the panel today. So direct theft is somebody comes, takes, goes in your trailer, steals a trailer, steals your container, steals the good inside. So it's very direct, but the indirect one, or there's more strategic that's actually quite dangerous these days, is more around social engineering, where somebody is a fake carrier, acts like it's a trucking company, and then you're actually giving that information to the trucking company. You tell them to go pick up a load while you're thinking it's your carrier, and they go pick up the load straight from your warehouse, without you knowing that it was a carrier or truck driver that was not supposed to come there. And they just pick up the load, load it from a warehouse, and off they go. So I think that's the those are the two layers, really, right now that people are trying to protect. And then what we discussed various technologies that are out there to be able to alleviate your strategic theft, and then see what you can do around direct theft, I would say one thing that we that we discussed, was security is not just the one thing that fits all. You find one solution. It does everything for you. It's a part of a process. 

It's the thing that customers have to do together to really part of their process inside their business. It. Think of it as multiple layers, and you can have various layers of security, and the more layers that you add, the harder for anybody to penetrate that security layer that you've created. So first, on strategic theft side, you can use carrier vetting software. You can use other pieces of software so that you'll know whether there's these are legit carriers or not. Second thing you can do for free is actually just work with the people and see if you trust them. Do you have a really good relationship with them? Are they the ones who are really going to carry your shipment in a in a good way and in a secure way? And then you can start putting trackers on your shipments, putting seals on your shipments. And finally, obviously a layer of you can have an escort, with a car following your truck, with actual guns to be able to protect your shipment. So there's various layers, but every time you add one layer makes the thieves and everybody else more difficult to steal that shipment. So I would say that's what we really discussed on the panel.

In a recent panel discussion, Krenar Komoni, founder and CEO of Tive, highlighted how combating rising supply chain theft requires a multi-layered, technology-driven security strategy. 

LogiPharma USA 2025: What Were the Standout Trends?

At the 20th anniversary of LogiPharma USA, Dave Malenfant reflected on the event’s growth and its pivotal role in shaping discussions across the pharmaceutical supply chain. With over 700 attendees and standing-room-only master classes, Malenfant emphasized the strong industry engagement and the event’s ability to attract professionals from diverse company sizes and both clinical and commercial supply chain functions.

Looking back over two decades, Malenfant pointed out how the industry and the conference itself have evolved. In the early years, the sector was heavily male dominated, but today, greater female representation is evident across attendees and leadership roles. He credited Logipharma for broadening its reach and relevance, adapting to trends, and becoming, in his view, the premier global conference for pharmaceutical supply chain leaders.

For Malenfant, the continued growth of Logipharma is a testament to its ability to remain timely and relevant, bringing together a community that is both tackling current challenges and preparing for future transformations in supply chain management.

A transcript of Malenfant’s conversation with 

What have been some of the trends that have stood out at this year’s conference?

 AI, artificial intelligence, and how that plays into the whole area of supply chain, the integrated supply chain, the problem with AI. And we have a lot of discussions on AI. We're going to talk, I've got a moderating a panel that's going to talk about digital transformation and AI and but we have to be careful when you have an agenda that's really in a trend like AI, that we don't forget about the people and try and understand that it takes a new organization, A different kind of skill set in order to manage the trend of AI and other technologies that are coming forth. But AI is by far the number one trend that's going to dominate this year, obviously, and it's going to dominate 2026 and I think it's going to dominate through to 2030.

Dave Malenfant, healthcare supply chain expert, outlines the topics that are top of mind at the show.

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