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3. Supply Chain Issues in Disaster

Supply Chain Management in disaster is not only about delivering supplies to hospitals or disaster impacted areas. It requires orchestrating the transportation, distribution, warehousing and timely delivery of medicines, basic needs including food, apparels etc., while minimizing costs and serving the maximum number of consumers.
The quality of the Disaster Response Supplies is also to be maintained which further necessitates the used of high end technology. The unpredictable occurrence of disaster in any area raises lot of issues regarding the actual implementation of supply chain infrastructure in actual. Some of the issues are discussed below:

From the above discussion, it is clear that the supply chain strategy has to be devised in a way to provide quick response, right services for the type of disaster. Critical to this the supply chain has to capable enough to maintain quality of materials, backup the ongoing services with right type of support services.

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* Contributed by: -
Bhupinder Singh & Prasad Deo,
Students of PGP 2,
NITIE, Mumbai.