{"634368":{"#nid":"634368","#data":{"type":"event","title":"#SMARTer Together Webinar Series - Webinar #4","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch1\u003EClick \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/smarter-together-webinar-series-tickets-102566039786\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E for registration!\u003C\/h1\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u0026quot;Toward Efficient Pandemic Supply Chain Readiness and Response\u0026quot;\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/users\/benoit-montreuil\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBenoit Montreuil\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, Coca-Cola Material Handling \u0026amp; Distribution Chair and Professor and Co-Director Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EModerator:\u0026nbsp;Daniel Studdard, American Planning Association, Georgia Chapter\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn this presentation, Dr. Montreuil will emphasize the impactful interplay between supply chains and pandemics, across the world and in each locality. The impact of collectively improving pandemic supply chain readiness and response in each of the five world states - healthy, outbreak, epidemics, pandemics, and recovery - will be highlighted.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe focus will be on critical and essential supply chains to demonstrate the capital importance of supply chains in fighting and surviving a pandemics, as revealed by the covid19 crisis.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ECritical supply chains support the fight against the pandemic disease by supporting the booming demand for testing kits, masks, respirators, etc., to hospitals and health centers.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EEssential supply chains provide the food, health products and goods necessary to ensure survival, quality of life and recovery capability of pandemic-affected populations and economies, notably subject to distancing and containment measures.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EKey avenues for collectively and comprehensively enabling effective and efficient pandemic supply chain readiness and response in each of the world states will be presented. These avenues combine common-sense pragmatic practices to leading-edge concepts and technologies, notably based on Artificial Intelligence and the Physical Internet. They notably enable:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ECritical and essential supply chain visibility and predictability;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ESmart fair decisions relative to critical and essential product allocation, deployment, and transportation;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EKeeping a healthy and efficient supply chain workforce;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ERepurposing supply chains and facilities to provide boost in critical and essential product availability;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EVector-free logistics eliminating disease propagation through goods and food production, packaging, distribution and delivery.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe presentation results from the interdisciplinary collaboration of 28 professors from Georgia Tech Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccess webinar \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/bluejeans.com\/417369217\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Join us for Dr. Montreuil\u0027s webinar entitled \u0022Enabling Together Smarter Pandemic Supply Chain Readiness and Response\u0022"}],"uid":"34928","created_gmt":"2020-04-14 19:21:07","changed_gmt":"2020-06-09 15:06:58","author":"kk151","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2020-05-28T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2020-05-28T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2020-05-28T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2020-05-28 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2020-05-28 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2020-05-28 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"634818":{"id":"634818","type":"image","title":"#SMARTer Together","body":null,"created":"1588098645","gmt_created":"2020-04-28 18:30:45","changed":"1588098645","gmt_changed":"2020-04-28 18:30:45","alt":"","file":{"fid":"241585","name":"Smarter Together Header.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Smarter%20Together%20Header.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Smarter%20Together%20Header.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":205367,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Smarter%20Together%20Header.JPG?itok=IRmKubUV"}}},"media_ids":["634818"],"groups":[{"id":"594329","name":"Smart Cities and Inclusive Innovation"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}