Online-only content accompanying:Supply Chain Resilience and the 2017 Hurricane Season|1 External Factors Debris and Donations Supply chains are fundamentally concerned with the movement of goods.Each individual supply chain is subject to constraints that limit its overall capacity to move goods that manifest on the nodes and links that make up the supply chain network.Prior case studies have shown how disruptions of key inputs to individual nodes and links,sudden surges in flow,lost signals,different needs during emergencies versus normal operations,and other stumbling blocks can interrupt normal supply chain functioning.It is often difficult to disentangle the specific supply chain effects from the overall context of disaster management,and isolate interdependent supply chains for the purpose of analysis.Instead of focusing on individual supply chain effects,this final case study focuses on the on-the-ground realities of the disaster zone,and the external factors that can have effects on movement of goods in the hardest hit areas.We focus on the issues of debris management and donations from private sector,charitable,and other non-governmental organizations.Debris management is a
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