Disaster Supply Chains: From Situational Awareness to Actionable Analysis
Achieving situational awareness is insufficient when it comes to restoring private sector supply chains. More important than being aware of the current situation is correctly understanding interdependent supply chains, forecasting resources and flows, and knowing where and how to intervene with gove...
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| author | Boutilier, Justin James Goentzel, Jarrod Windle, Michael |
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| description | Achieving situational awareness is insufficient when it comes to restoring private sector supply chains. More important than being aware of the current situation is correctly understanding interdependent supply chains, forecasting resources and flows, and knowing where and how to intervene with government assistance. Private sector organizations achieve supply chain visibility with enterprise resource systems. Achieving the same visibility across competing and decentralized private sector organizations will require a shift in how the emergency management community approaches cooperation and data aggregation. Accurate, timely, and representative data feeds are required for explanatory, forecasting, and prescriptive tools that should be used dynamically during disasters, not afterwards. Successful data aggregation strategies will require a mix of connecting to pre-existing data feeds and collecting information directly through creation of voluntary trusted spaces and mandatory
reporting requirements. Complex models that leverage optimization and machine learning can provide emergency managers with a better understanding of the causes and remedies of supply chain disruption. Models will take time and effort to develop and employ. Models should support, not replace, current information sources to enable better decision making. Improved communication between government and the private sector is critical for improved
disaster response. Collaboration between public and private sector actors will contribute to better information flow and help prioritize recovery efforts. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1271862020-09-05T03:34:21Z Disaster Supply Chains: From Situational Awareness to Actionable Analysis Boutilier, Justin James Goentzel, Jarrod Windle, Michael humanitarian supply chain managament hurricane response Achieving situational awareness is insufficient when it comes to restoring private sector supply chains. More important than being aware of the current situation is correctly understanding interdependent supply chains, forecasting resources and flows, and knowing where and how to intervene with government assistance. Private sector organizations achieve supply chain visibility with enterprise resource systems. Achieving the same visibility across competing and decentralized private sector organizations will require a shift in how the emergency management community approaches cooperation and data aggregation. Accurate, timely, and representative data feeds are required for explanatory, forecasting, and prescriptive tools that should be used dynamically during disasters, not afterwards. Successful data aggregation strategies will require a mix of connecting to pre-existing data feeds and collecting information directly through creation of voluntary trusted spaces and mandatory reporting requirements. Complex models that leverage optimization and machine learning can provide emergency managers with a better understanding of the causes and remedies of supply chain disruption. Models will take time and effort to develop and employ. Models should support, not replace, current information sources to enable better decision making. Improved communication between government and the private sector is critical for improved disaster response. Collaboration between public and private sector actors will contribute to better information flow and help prioritize recovery efforts. 2020-09-04T19:27:37Z 2020-09-04T19:27:37Z 2019-05-31 Technical Report https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127186 en_US application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | humanitarian supply chain managament hurricane response Boutilier, Justin James Goentzel, Jarrod Windle, Michael Disaster Supply Chains: From Situational Awareness to Actionable Analysis |
| title | Disaster Supply Chains: From Situational Awareness to Actionable Analysis |
| title_full | Disaster Supply Chains: From Situational Awareness to Actionable Analysis |
| title_fullStr | Disaster Supply Chains: From Situational Awareness to Actionable Analysis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Disaster Supply Chains: From Situational Awareness to Actionable Analysis |
| title_short | Disaster Supply Chains: From Situational Awareness to Actionable Analysis |
| title_sort | disaster supply chains from situational awareness to actionable analysis |
| topic | humanitarian supply chain managament hurricane response |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127186 |
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