Rethinking Industry’s Role in a National Emergency

The shortcomings of the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile must be remedied before the next large-scale public health emergency. Here’s how.

ManMohan S. Sodhi and Christopher S. Tang

May 27, 2021

The Analysis

• Our analysis is derived from our working paper “Preparing for Future Pandemics With a Reserve of Inventory, Capacity, and Capability,” which calculates optimal levels of inventory and the unit costs in inventory trade-offs with domestic capacity for the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile.
• Our proposed solution draws upon good risk-management practices for supply chains, outlined in our book Managing Supply Chain Risk (Springer, 2012).

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