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Topic Title: Strategic National Stockpile and Supply Chains
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Created On: 8/17/2009 3:48 PM
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It might be useful to look at end-to-end processes within the Strategic National Stockpile as encompassing the design, control, operation, integration and management of Supply Chain subsystems. To explore this approach in depth, CDC’s Program Preparedness Branch intends to inaugurate a biennial Conference on supply chains in April 2010. What sort of concepts and strategies should the intended assembly of leading academicians, practitioners and other cognoscente in the field discuss at such a convention? Kindly contribute your thoughts on relevant aspects of inventory management, the increasing complexities of modern logistics, the changing transportation industry and its deregulation, public health and national security, the impact of IT and other emerging technologies, etceteras.
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