IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF CHALLENGES AND INNOVATIONS IN HUMANITARIAN SUPPLY CHAIN

Abstract

Humanitarian logistics has the opportunity to increase its contribution to disaster relief and to be recognized for that contribution by implementing initiatives in the areas of knowledge management, technology, measurement, community, and positioning. Ensuring movement of relief items to disaster prone areas will continue to be an important role for logistics, the strategic focus must be on providing timely information, analyzing that information to garner insight as to how to improve operations, and learning internally and with others. International humanitarian supply chains are unpredictable and turbulent, which require flexibility and agility to deal with humanitarian supply chains. This will ensure supply chain will become more relevant, efficient and effective in managing supply chain in any emergency.