Preparedness
- Identify sources for the procurement of medical supplies and commodities
- Manage inventory for all medical supplies and commodities
- Locate facility and estimate capacity for stockpiling centers
- Network design; distribution centers (DCs), transportation modes and activities
Outbreak Investigation
- Provide necessary commodities and resources to the outbreak response teams for effective operational deployment
Response
- Select facilities to serve as points of dispensing sites (PODs)
- Transport / distribute supplies and commodities from central DCs to local PODs
- Design cold supply chain for delivery of essential medical supplies, clinical flow logistics (for managing patients in triage centers)
- Provide decision-makers with graphical dynamic displays IT dashboards
- Construct dynamic health policies for controlling the spread of the outbreak
- Design interventions to minimize spread of the outbreak in the network
Evaluation
- KPIs for the performance of the logistics control operations;
- Assessment of coordination issues among the stakeholders;
- Capture the organizational memory of the entire effort