Blackett memorial lecture humanitarian aid logistics. Humanitarian logistics and relief supply chain management is a relatively new area of investigation which is. The term humanitarian logistics, seems to have gained currency both in academia and in practice. Humanitarian logistics an exposition of the challenges to. In response to this trend humanitarian agencies are looking for more e. Part of the insead business press series book series ibp. Careful search of current literature indicates that there have been several empirical.
The cases and recommendations in this book will be very helpful to anyone seeking to maximize their impact on humanitarian disaster relief. Special issue on humanitarian operations management. Humanitarian logistics and supply chain management since disaster relief is about 80 % logistics it would follow then that the only way to achieve this is through slick, ef. I a typical humanitarian logistics planners checklist. Humanitarian logistics insead business press 9780230205758. It examines how humanitarian logistics and supply chains play a key role, focusing on rapidly delivering the correct. This is the first book that has integrated effective approaches in humanitarian logistics and business supply chain management in a most instructive and inspiring manner, and both sectors can learn so much from it. In response to this trend humanitarian agencies are looking for more efficient and effective solutions. The better one is prepared the more effective the response van wassenhove, 2006. Supply chain hubs in global humanitarian logistics harvard. He recently coedited special issues on humanitarian operations for the journal of operations management, the production and operations management journal and the european journal of operational research.
However, in most cases response to disasters by humanitarian and relief organizations ghana is fraught with challenging constraints making. The magnitude of utilization make it all the more critical and import for an efficient and effective humanitarian logistics process. Despite the importance of humanitarian logistics, the academic studies in this area are limited van wassenhove, 2006. Humanitarian logistics and supply chain managementa qualitative study.
Professor van wassenhove has also explored issues around project management and in a 2008 article for. Luk van wassenhove and his research group at insead have been writing cases on humanitarian operations since the early 2000s. The teaching of humanitarian logistics at university level. More recently, his work has focused on managing humanitarian logistics. However, until recently, this work has received little attention from mainstream academic research. Thomas, 2007, some concepts of supply chain in the industry and in the military field share similarities with humanitarian logistics and therefore some tools and methods developed for supply chains can be adapted to. Designing efficient resource procurement and allocation. Professor anna nagurney schmgmt 597lg humanitarian logistics and healthcare. This book discusses emerging themes in the area of humanitarian logistics.
Demand forecasting and order planning for humanitarian logistics. Supply chain hubs in global humanitarian logistics. I highly recommend to humanitarian logistics professionals as well as business supply chain practitioners. Logistics consider as a linkage between disaster mitigation phase and response phase, between distribution and procurement and between field and headquarters van wassenhove, 2006.
The conference, which was 11 months in planning, coincided with the. Supply chain hubs in global humanitarian logistics by jon m. Part of the insead business press series book series ibp log in to check access. While humanitarian logistics may share certain similarities with its commercial counterparts in activities such as planning and transportation, they differ in demand pattern, objective, stakeholders, structure, complexity, and operating environment van wassenhove, 2006. L n van wassenhove imagine the logistics involved in. Now imagine planning the same event but not knowing when or where it will take place, or how many will attend.
Journal of humanitarian logistics and supply chain management. Blackett memorial lecturet humanitarian aid logistics. The near impossibility of this task gives some insight into what humanitarian. Jd blackburn, vdr guide jr, gc souza, ln van wassenhove. Humanitarian logistics by tomasini and van wassenhove a missed chance by michael keizer on november 9, 2009 if you have followed this blog, you will know that i am very much in favour of more academic input into our logistics efforts. Altay and green 2006 survey the literature to identify potential research directions in disaster operations, discuss relevant issues, and provide a starting point for interested researchers. Diego vega, christine roussat, 2015 humanitarian logistics. Humanitarian supply chain management an overview core. Authors personal copy center of excellence for sustainable urban. Humanitarian aid logistics learning for life northwestern.
It is based on research conducted by the humanitarian research group. Thus sound, knowledgeable management of logistics and supply chain operations is vital to the successful achievement of ho objectives. In his 2009 book with rolando tomasini he explored the challenges of creating logistics capabilities for situations of high uncertainty in terms of timing and location. Series title insead business press copyright 2009 publisher palgrave macmillan uk copyright holder palgrave macmillan, a division of macmillan publishers limited ebook isbn 9780230233485 doi 10. This paper discusses the evolution of supply chain management in disaster relief and the role of new players like the private sector. Global disasters are steadily increasing in frequency and severity. Jan 30, 2017 decentralized supply chains with a greater number of hubs and depot locations are designed to be more responsive to disasters around the globe by getting primary relief items such as food, water and medicines to beneficiaries quickly. Van wassenhove 30, kleindorfer and van wassenhove 11, thomas and mizushima 2005, tomasini and van wassenhove 30, thompson 25. Theterm humanitarian logistics encompasses a wide range of operations including the distribution of medical. Disasters are on the rise, more complex, and donor support is increasingly unpredictable. Ramina samii and luk van wassenhove september 2003. Key performance indicators in humanitarian logistics in. In 2006, it reorganized and joined the ranks of the top ten global logistics providers worldwide. Following this reorganization, ceo tarek sultan took the initiative to give greater definition to his companys corporate social responsibility csr profile.
Logistics of humanitarian aid request pdf researchgate. Dean frank brown, insead as the uns lead logistics organization we have a responsibility to look for benchmark practices both in the traditional humanitarian community but also in the private sector. Session 3 demand planning i needs assessment guest lecturer. Vehicle replacement in the international committee of the red cross. On the use of evidence in humanitarian logistics research. I24, m53, r41 introduction every year, approximately 200 million people are affected by natural disasters or humanitarian crisis van wassenhove, 2006.
See the survey of ozdamar and ertem 1, and the books of tomasini and van wassenhove 2 and vitoriano et al. Ambiguous objectives make it difficult to assess the level of commitment of the different. Jul 24, 2009 our research shows that humanitarian supply chains also differ from commercial ones because of ambiguous objectives, limited human and capital resources, high levels of uncertainty, and the politicized environment tomasini and van wassenhove, 2009. Humanitarian logistics model it has been observed that up to 80% of the total cost for disaster relief is taken up by humanitarian logistics van wassenhove, 2006. From logistics to supply chain management fritz institute.
Transportation and vehicle fleet management in humanitarian logistics. The eld of humanitarian logistics has recently been receiving greater attention as scholars rec ognize similarities and di erences in the speci c needs of supply chains in response to disasters vis avis supply chains in the private sector van wassenhove 2006, gupta 2011. The focus of this article is on supply chain related issues in humanitarian operations. Professor van wassenhove is fellow of the production and operations management society poms 2005. Luk van wassenhove humanitarian logistics ebook, pdf. Some even further suggest supply chain analytics for humanitarian logistics transformation 19 focuses on the important role of humanitarian logistics, networks for africa in support for. Euro journal on transportation and logistics, 2012, 1 12 pp.
This paper identi es differences between commercial logistics and the keyvariantsofhl. Van wassenhove the henry ford professor of manufacturing insead humanitarian research grou p an academic perspective on health and humanitarian logisticsand humanitarian logistics georgia tech, march 34, 2011. Since education is a necessary vehicle for the transfer of research into practice, the identification of partnerships across the continents for education on humanitarian logistics was also a topic of the conference. Journal of humanitarian logistics and supply chain. Agility is a global logistics provider, based in kuwait. Professor anna nagurney schmgmt 597lg humanitarian logistics and healthcare a case study international federation of red. Humanitarian logistics an exposition of the challenges. Logistics of humanitarian aid introduction from logistics to supply chain management supply chain management supply. The scope, importance and challenge of humanitarian logistics.
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