J&J tops list of healthcare supply chains amid COVID vaccine effort—and Pfizer wins kudos, too

With a range of COVID-19 vaccine candidates nearing the finish line, more eyes are turning to the strength of drugmakers' supply chains to meet global demand. One of the drugmakers leading the pack—Johnson & Johnson—can tout a supply chain that's the best in its field, a new report finds.

Partly because of strong backing from its peers, J&J topped Gartner's top 25 list of healthcare supply chains for the second year in a row, just as the drugmaker gears up to distribute up to 1 billion doses of its investigational COVID-19 vaccine, Ad26.COV2.S, in 2021.