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 furtherexplore the application of novel concepts in joint planning, market intelligence, and governance related to a national pandemic or other global contingency. 

Addresses the COVID-19 pandemic supply chain response with first-hand accounts from military and industry experts who experienced the tumultuous first few months of the federal response Develops important themes for private and public sector supply chain managers to consider in re-building a more immune supply chain Offers the first-of-its-kind account of the United States' ability to respond to a nation-wide crisis from a strategic supply chain perspective

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