Main description:

This book provides a concerted supply chain perspective for dealing with pandemics on the scale of COVID-19. Specifically, this book describes a new approach, supply chain immunity, to illustrate what is needed to fix our economy and healthcare systems. The authors of this book are experts in supply chain management, health care supply chains, major systems acquisition, and contingency sourcing methods. Based on first-hand experiences working during COVID in the depths of the nation's supply chain failures, the authors develop important themes for private and public sector supply chain managers to consider in rebuilding a more immune supply chain. The book is targeted at policy makers, academics, practitioners, and students of disaster response, public policy, healthcare, and supply chain management who are interested in learning contemporary lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. From the perspective of those who lived through the chaos, the authors further explore the application of novel concepts in joint planning, market intelligence, and governance related to a national pandemic or other global contingency.

Contents:

COVID-19.- Tragedy of the Bad Behaviors During Scarcity.- Symptoms of a Sick Supply Chain.- SNS 1.0.- PPE Spectrum and Hidden Stock "Blurry Vision".- Flexibility.- Traceability and Transparency.- Persistence and Responsiveness "Orbital Market Intel".- Global Independence.- Equity.- National Contingency Supply Chain Cell Structure.- SNS 2.0 and Other Recommendations.