While some aspects of commercial logistics and supply chain management are fully applicable for disaster relief and humanitarian supply chains many are not directly transferable. What are the similarities and what are the differences? Can both types of operations learn from each other? In this paper, Supply chain management for Disaster Relief Operations: principles and case studies, three scholars from Indonesia, Nyoman Pujawan, Nani Kurniati and Naning Wessiani propose a principle of supply chain management for Disaster Relief Operations  based on visibility, coordination, professionalism and accountability, and then apply it as a framework to evaluate the handling of logistics operation of two recent events in Indonesia. What they come up with is indeed quite interesting.

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