Gatchalian orders full automation in preposition of relief goods

Social Welfare Secretary Rex Gatchalian has ordered the full automation of the agency’s inventory management system to speed up the prepositioning of relief goods in times of disaster.

- SHEILA CRISOSTOMO

Gatchalian said the full automation of the inventory management of the Disaster Response Command Center (DRCC) is crucial in disaster response.

“We have to perfect the DRCC Automated Data Management System for Inventory. What is important is that we have prepositioned relief goods with an aggressive digitalized system for inventory,” he noted.

In his third State of the Nation Address last Monday, President Marcos described the DRCC as “the central hub for the government’s disaster response effort.”

This prompted Gatchalian to order DRCC officials to implement the full automation of inventory, underscoring that the prepositioning of relief goods is an innovation of President Marcos.

“This is the vision of the President. We just put this (prepositioning) into action. It was started by then-secretary Erwin Tulfo and we built on it,” he earlier claimed.