Senior Project Manager Joe Goetz describes the supply chain analysis network in about 90 seconds. www.dewberry.com
Hi, my name is Joe Goetz and I'm a project manager in the disaster recovery solutions office here at Dewberry. One of the contracts that I manage is for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and it deals with private sector supply chain analysis.
Today I'd like to explain a little bit about what supply chain analysis is and why it's beneficial for FEMA to know this after a disaster. So supply chain analysis, we look at the private sector's ability to provide life sustaining and critical commodities such as food, water, fuel and medicine. FEMA can provide a lot of these commodities. They have bottled water, they have meals ready to eat, they have portable generators, and often they're very critical in providing immediate response to disaster survivors. But it's very important for FEMA to know how quickly the private sector will be able to be resilient and get their commodities back up and running.
So organizations like Walmart or Amazon or other private sector companies can get their commodities flowing and that way the government doesn't have to provide survivors. The government would much rather have the private sector provide these commodities than the government doing it. That's really what the purpose of the supply chain analysis is. It's to give the government about a 48 or 72 hour look ahead as to when we think the private sector will be able to provide the commodities that the survivors need in order to get back to some sense of normalcy.
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