{ "item_title" : "Logistics in Homeland Security and Emergency Management", "item_author" : [" Chad Prosser "], "item_description" : "Document from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, language: English, abstract: Logistics, a broad all encompassing term, is nothing new. It has been responsible for winning and losing wars as well as proving businesses successful or failed. Modern technology has greatly improved accountability systems of the supply chain warehouses and distribution efficiency with statistical formulas and spreadsheets to calculate travel times, driver rest cycles, and fuel consumption. Logistics for businesses means profits. On the other hand, logistics for Homeland Security and Emergency management means saving innocent lives. Logistics within Homeland Security and Emergency Management, while structurally the same, has become a more important field of study due to the effects it has on both responding to a disaster as it does securing the US from international threats. Despite the growth of interest in logistics, there are many problems that still hinder the Department of Homeland Security's mission of protecting the US and Emergency Managers planning and executing logistic operations during a time of crisis.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/3/66/869/974/3668699747_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "25.50", "online_price" : "25.50", "our_price" : "25.50", "club_price" : "25.50", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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