Supply Chain Management

Emerging Technologies
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Military Yet to Fully Leverage Additive Manufacturing
Samantha McBirney, Phillip Burton
Mar 2, 2022
National DEFENSE
Additive manufacturing may very well become a critical component of the Defense Department supply chain, but challenges ranging from decentralized approaches among the various services, a lack of standards, limited awareness and know-how among military workforce and leadership, and intellectual property issues could prevent the Pentagon from realizing its potential.
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Supply Chain Management
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Supply Chain Disruptions: The Risks and Consequences
Bradley Martin
Nov 15, 2021
The RAND Blog
With interdependence comes risk, and in the case of supply chains, these risks often are not fully appreciated. A systematic effort, cutting across agencies and public and private sectors, could be one way to ensure that vulnerabilities are understood and mitigated.
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International Diplomacy
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China and Russia, Wages and Insurance, Refugees and Technology : RAND Weekly Recap
Oct 15, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on China-Russia ties, considerations when raising the minimum wage, how refugees use digital devices, and more.
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Supply Chain Management
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Stress Tests: The Right Tool for Strengthening Supply Chains
Jonathan W. Welburn
Aug 10, 2021
Supply Chain Dive
Isolated interruptions to individual supply chains feel like a thing of the past. Today, the risks are more likely to cut across supply chains and leave companies vulnerable to shared or cascading threats. If we want to make supply chains more resilient, it's time to apply some stress tests.
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Visual Arts
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RAND Art + Data, 'Gray Market Care,' Supply Chains and Cyberattacks: RAND Weekly Recap
Jun 25, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on RAND's new artist residency program, Art + Data; the prevalence of "gray market care" in the United States; supply chains' cyber problem; and more.
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Cybersecurity
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Supply Chains Have a Cyber Problem
Jonathan W. Welburn
Jun 22, 2021
The RAND Blog
We are entering a world in which cyber disruptions easily become supply chain disruptions, and where supply chains for hardware and software create new cyber risks. Managing these will demand digital-era solutions, including updating tools, regulations, and reporting requirements.
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Supply Chain Management
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Military and Defense-Related Supply Chains
Bradley Martin
Jun 22, 2021
The RAND Blog
After the Cold War, U.S. logistics planners moved away from a focus on effectiveness to a focus on efficiency in the sense that little is left idle for significant periods and that commodities are delivered at minimum cost. The ability of the system to support the joint force in the event of major conflict is at best untested and could be problematic.
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Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy
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Thinking Through Rapid and Scalable Rollout of Healthcare Innovations for Public Health Challenges
Robert J. Romanelli, Michael Whitmore, Sonja Marjanovic @SonjaCambs
Jun 14, 2021
The RAND Blog
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that rapid innovation in the face of public health emergencies is possible. In only 15 months, 15 vaccines have been approved or authorized for use in various parts of the world. What thinking is required to support uniform rapid rollout for future public health emergencies?
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Vaccination
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The Pivotal Role of Remote Working in the Journey to Jab the Nation
Michael Whitmore
May 13, 2021
Workplace Insight
Pulling the UK COVID-19 vaccination program together was an immense logistical and technical effort. Had it not been for the working practices mandated by the lockdown, it would have been even more difficult. What changed over the pandemic to allow this to happen?
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Supply Chain Management
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Supply Chains and National Security—the Lessons of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bradley Martin
May 11, 2021
The RAND Blog
The many pandemic-related shortages that occurred in the United States and elsewhere provide a clear warning. Serious supply-chain vulnerabilities exist. We need to learn much more about this potential threat to national security.
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Supply Chain Management
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Unconventional Supply Network Operations: A New Frontier in Global Competition
Daniel Egel, Jan K. Gleiman
Apr 19, 2021
RealClearDefense
The technological advances of recent decades that have made supply networks drastically more efficient, valuable, and essential to every element of our daily lives have also created a highly interdependent, largely unsecured portfolio of potential attack surfaces.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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COVID-19 Demographic Trends, Vaccinating 'High-Contact' People, the Iran Threat Network: RAND Weekly Recap
Apr 16, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on how the pandemic is shaping demographic trends, targeting vaccines to "high-contact" people, the Iran Threat Network, and more.
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Supply Chain Management
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Supply Chains and National Security
Bradley Martin
Apr 12, 2021
The RAND Blog
Lessons from the pandemic will be sorted through for years. But one thing seems very clear: The United States is not ready in a policy or infrastructure or even physical-capacity sense to respond to major shocks to its supply chains.
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Vaccination
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Target Vaccine to 'High-Contact' People
Timothy R. Gulden
Apr 9, 2021
The Detroit News
Actively seeking out people with lots of contacts for vaccination could bring the epidemic under control much more quickly than vaccinating people at random. Vaccinating just 15% of the population would be enough to crush the epidemic—so long as it was the right 15%.
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Game Theory
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How Game Theory Could Solve the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Puzzle
Luke Muggy
Mar 11, 2021
Fortune
The health systems behind the vaccine rollout are attempting to create order from chaos, sometimes with mixed results. Rather than relying on on-the-fly decisionmaking, state authorities should consider turning to game theory as a tool that could be the key to more efficient, faster vaccine distribution.
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Logistics Management
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Keep the Vaccine Moving to Save the Most Lives
Carter C. Price @CarterCPrice, John F. Raffensperger
Jan 19, 2021
The RAND Blog
The United States is waiting to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and millions of doses wait for arms. Policymakers at the national, state, and local levels have been stockpiling the shots for many reasons. While supply ramps up, policymakers could push to deliver vaccine to people instead of freezers.
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Military Yet to Fully Leverage Additive Manufacturing

Supply Chain Disruptions: The Risks and Consequences

China and Russia, Wages and Insurance, Refugees and Technology : RAND Weekly Recap

Stress Tests: The Right Tool for Strengthening Supply Chains

RAND Art + Data, 'Gray Market Care,' Supply Chains and Cyberattacks: RAND Weekly Recap

Supply Chains Have a Cyber Problem

Military and Defense-Related Supply Chains

Thinking Through Rapid and Scalable Rollout of Healthcare Innovations for Public Health Challenges

The Pivotal Role of Remote Working in the Journey to Jab the Nation

Supply Chains and National Security—the Lessons of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Unconventional Supply Network Operations: A New Frontier in Global Competition

COVID-19 Demographic Trends, Vaccinating 'High-Contact' People, the Iran Threat Network: RAND Weekly Recap

Supply Chains and National Security

Target Vaccine to 'High-Contact' People

How Game Theory Could Solve the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Puzzle

Keep the Vaccine Moving to Save the Most Lives

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