Can commercial logistics’ ideas and solutions work in humanitarian supply chains? No. Why? Well, perhaps they could work, but in most cases they won’t, simply because there is a profound lack of technical logistics knowledge in many aid agencies and even more so, very few experienced logisticians working in the Humanitarian Aid community. That’s what Anthony Beresford and Stephen Pettit say in their 2009 article  Emergency logistics and risk mitigation in Thailand following the Asian tsunami. This scarcity of qualified logistics know-how impacts directly on the functioning of the relief effort. So they say…

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