Logistics Risk, Ethics, and Response

This unit integrates continuity planning, disaster recovery, regulatory compliance, and ethical decision-making for global distribution and logistics. Students examine humanitarian and commercial case studies to apply response-phase planning, customer and workforce support strategies, and mitigation of operational risks such as dunnage, demurrage, damage, and data loss.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze global and domestic case studies to identify root causes of logistics failures and successes and recommend corrective strategies that address cultural, ethical, environmental, and regulatory factors
• Apply Production Continuity of Operations (COOP) and logistics data disaster recovery principles to create a scenario-based COOP and data-recovery plan that maintains service levels for government and commercial clients
• Evaluate operational and legal implications of supply chain issues—including dunnage, demurrage, damage, workforce compensation, and tactics that skirt regulation—and produce compliance and ethics-based recommendations for decision makers
• Demonstrate the phases of operational response by developing a coordinated response plan that sequences response activities, details customer support and workforce compensation measures, and integrates humanitarian logistics best practices