Humanitarian Relief and Broken Supply Chains: Advancing Logistics Performance

All of the stakeholders in a relief operation—donors, humanitarian groups, governments, local nongovernment organizations, the military, and the private sector—are connected by a fragile supply chain. The challenge is to create a flexible and adaptive supply chain for humanitarian relief, capable of launching a variety of services appropriate to the incident, with a wide scope, in a short time. The authors of this article identify some practical approaches.

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• Authors:
  • Menzies III, John T (Jock)
  • Helferich, Omar (Keith)
• Publication Date: 2013-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 11-16
• Serial:
  • TR News
  • Issue Number: 287
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0738-6826

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Disaster relief; Disasters and emergency operations; Logistics; Stakeholders; Supply chain management
• Uncontrolled Terms: Humanitarian assistance
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General); I70: Traffic and Transport;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01496022
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Oct 23 2013 1:44PM