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Book Review: Humanitarian Logistics

Humanitarian supply chains appear to be the rising star within supply chain management, and rightly so. This book matches humanitarian logistics with corporate social responsibility, and that is not only doing good but doing the good rightly.

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Humanitarian Relief Supply Chains

The timely delivery of critical goods has always been a crucial element of an effective disaster response, but an effective disaster supply chain is hard to create and maintain. What are the key supply chain factors for improving disaster supply chain management?

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Humanitarian aid is better when decentralized

Decentralization, pre-positioning and pooling of relief items are key success factors for dramatic improvements in humanitarian operations performance in disaster response and recovery.

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Call for papers: Humanitarian Logistics

Now there is a new source for knowledge on disaster management and humanitarian logistics, the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (JHLSCM).

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Emergency Logistics

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.

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Humanitarian and military supply chains side-by side

Only by combining military and humanitarian supply chains, the strengths of both types of logistics can be exploited, and the extreme agility of rescue organizations can be matched with the extreme efficiency of the military.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
From the back room to the board room
Supply chain management used to be relegated to the logistics department of businesses and hardly th[...]
Supply Chain Risk: Invasive Species
With 90% of world trade carried by sea, the global network of ships criss-crossing the oceans provid[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Research Methodologies in SCM
Is there something like the right research design for supply chain studies? I believe there is, and [...]
Book Review: Security Risk Management - Body of Knowledge
A Wiley book rarely lets you down, and this one doesn't either. With a refreshing Australian touch, [...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk?
Supply chain disruption - a global issue? All companies and governments dependent on external suppli[...]
Saving Norway's crumbling infrastructure
NTP 2010-2019
Following up my post this morning called "D-Day for Norway's Transport Infrastructure", the numbers [...]
from HERE and THERE
Issues in visualization of risk and vulnerability
Risk analysis tends to be a highly mathematically, statistically, and let alone probabilistically or[...]
Migrants and European supply chains
Truckers caught up in Europe's migrant crisis say business is increasingly disrupted by queues and s[...]