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.
Author(s): Robert Handfield, Daniel J. Finkenstadt
Series: Synthesis Lectures on Operations Research and Applications
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 135
City: Cham
Prologue: How We Got Involved
Contents
Part I The Disease
1 COVID-19, A Rapidly Evolving Disaster in 2020
2 Tragedy of the New Commons
Part II Symptoms and Treatments
3 Slow Response
3.1 Vaccine Hesitancy
3.2 Testing: The Missing Link to Stop the Spread of COVID
3.3 The Need for a Testing Strategy
3.4 The Strategic National Stockpile (SNS)
3.4.1 Current Capabilities
3.4.2 Missing Capabilities
3.5 Requirements for a Government Response
4 Traceability and Transparency
4.1 Transparency and Traceability
4.1.1 Current State
4.1.2 Future State
4.1.3 A Supply Chain Spectrum for PPE
4.1.4 Improving Our Vision
4.1.5 Conclusion
5 Flexibility and Global Independence
5.1 Flexibility Through Improved Contracting
5.2 Global Independence
5.2.1 Current State
5.2.2 Future State
6 Persistent Market Intelligence
6.1 Medical Intelligence Signals
6.2 Supply Market Intelligence
6.2.1 An Orbital Regime of Market Intelligence
7 Equitable Distribution
7.1 Equitable Distribution
7.1.1 Current State
7.1.2 Future State
7.2 Government Policy Issues
7.2.1 Leverages Existing Capabilities and Delivers Effective Outcomes
7.2.2 Respects Constitutional Roles and Responsibilities
7.2.3 Political and Operational Viability/Sustainability
7.3 Conclusions
Part III Immunity
8 Major Supply Chain Events of 2020 Beyond COVID
8.1 Supply Chain Cyber Attacks
8.1.1 The Critical Elements of Cybersecurity
8.2 Supply Chain Weather Disruptions
8.2.1 Natural Rubber
8.2.2 Texas Freeze
8.2.3 Factory Fires
8.3 Manmade Disruptions
8.3.1 Suez Canal
8.3.2 Saudi Oil Fields
8.3.3 3M Coolant Factory Shutdown
8.4 Climate Disruptions
8.5 Labor Shortages
8.6 Russian Attack of Ukraine
8.6.1 Shortfalls in Capital Expenditures and Production Capacity
8.6.2 Summary
8.6.3 A Global Supply Chain Crisis Model
9 A New Model for Emergency Decision-Making and Planning in a Data Saturated World: The Goals, Decisions, Signals, Data Model
9.1 Issue 1—Too Many Competing Goals
9.2 Issue 2—Too Much Data and not Enough Direction to Leverage It
9.3 Conclusion
Appendix A: National Contingency Supply Chain Cell (NCSCC) Notional Construct
A.1 Further Details on Key Recommendations
A.1.1 Government-Academic Partnerships
A.1.2 Category Management
A.1.3 Legislation and Policy
A.1.4 Living Stockpiles
A.1.5 Global Independence
Appendix B: Workshop Protocol
B.1 Questions for Discussion
Appendix C: Supply Chain Act
Appendix D: Warstopper
Appendix E: Reinstituting the War Production Board
Appendix F: Global Sourcing Framework
Appendix G: “Dollar a Year Men” Policy Used in WWII
