Most skills and competencies needed to excel in logistics and supply-chain management are the same skills and competencies needed to excel at disaster relief operations.
Wal-Mart has experienced lots of disasters because they have stores and distribution centers in Florida, and they've figured out how to do it.
This act may provide an incentive for companies to actually plan for disasters, because if they don't, in some ways it's like negligence - it hurts customers and shareholders.
