Summer break is over and time for a continuation of my blog posts. Humanitarian Logistics by Ronaldo Tomasini and Luk N van Wassenhove was suggested to me by a reader, following up on my post on the special issue of the Journal of Production Economics on the topic of Humanitarian Relief Supply Chains, so I thought I should read and review it here on my blog. The book starts out well and manages to highlight the importance of applying professional supply chain management in ad-hoc humanitarian supply chains, and ends up with a case example that advocates corporate social responsibility as one way into humanitarian supply chains. Not what I expected, but perhaps exactly what is needed to make humanitarian logistics work?

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