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The goal of ALAN is to bring supply chain professionals together - helping others in need and finding solutions in times of crisis.

Join us on April 20th, and with each fully paid reservation, the CSCMP Delaware Valley Roundtable will donate a portion of the event proceeds to ALAN.

 


John Menzies
John T. Menzies

April 20, 2010
Disaster Response Roles & the Supply Chain Community

Jock Menzies,
President, American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN)
and Chairman, The Terminal Corporation

American Logistics Aid Network

Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm Arrival, Cash Bar / 6:30 pm Dinner
Place:
Crowne Plaza Hotel | Map
KING OF PRUSSIA - VALLEY FORGE
260 Mall Blvd
King of Prussia, PA 19406

Jock Menzies, President of the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN) will speak about the issues surrounding disaster response roles of non-governmental organizations (NGO's), the government and the supply chain community. Jock will also review the role ALAN has played in the Haiti response and with other natural disasters.

“Why didn’t they…?”

Especially since Hurricane Katrina the “Government,” FEMA, the military, USAID, and large NGO’s have faced this question. In considering this, other questions must be addressed:

  • "Could they?” Probably not.
  • “Should they? Yes and No.
  • “Would we want them to? No.
  • "What would it mean if they?” A step backwards.

The opportunity to draw of the resources of the Supply Chain community is critical. Once the initial impact has been absorbed a disaster is defined by and continues because of failed Supply Chains. Resilience is a function of being able to stand up alternatives rapidly. Studies have shown that just as there is the “magic hour” that the shock trauma medical field works within so is there a short period of time for the social and economic structures to be reestablished if a community is to recover.



Price:
  $42.00
Undergraduate Students - $20.00
Reservations:
 
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  On-line registrations preferred.
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Jock Menzies is Chairman of The Terminal Corporation, a third-party logistics services company dating from 1893 headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.

Terminal’s operations include public and contract warehousing, marine terminal operations, common carrier and contract truck transportation.

Current directorships include The Harford Mutual Insurance Company, the Central Maryland Chapter of the American Red Cross, and the Maryland Chamber of Commerce. Jock is chair of the Transportation Coalition of the Maryland State Chamber of Commerce and active with the International Warehouse Logistics Association Government Policy Committee. He is a director and 1st president of the American Logistics Aid Network (ALAN).

Past activities include directorships of the International Warehouse Logistics Association, the North Atlantic Ports Association, the Warehousing Education and Research Council, The Steamship Trade Association of Baltimore, the United Way of Central Maryland and the Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs. From 1989 through 1991, Jock was Chairman of Baltimore’s Private Sector Port Committee, and in 1992 and 1993 he was the first President of the Maryland Distribution Council.

A past chair of the Central Maryland Chapter of the American Red Cross Jock’s experience securing supply chain resources during Hurricane Isabel in 2003 led him in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to work with Supply Chain industry associations to establish the American Logistics Aid Network. ALAN provides a gateway to resources needed for humanitarian relief to the supply chain community. Resources may be products, plant and equipment or intellectual.

Jock is a graduate of St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York.

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