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The Nutritious Supply Chain: Optimizing Humanitarian Food Assistance [PDF]
INFORMS Journal on Optimization, 2021 The World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide, reaching approximately 90 million people with food assistance across 80 countries each year. To deal with the operational complexities inherent in its mandate, WFP has been developing tools to assist its decision makers with integrating supply chain decisions ...
Koen Peters +7 more
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Building humanitarian supply chain relationships: lessons from leading practitioners [PDF]
Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2011 Purpose – – The purpose of this paper is to advance thought and practice on supply chain relationship building, in the context of humanitarian logistics, drawing on lessons from leading practitioners. Design/methodology/approach – – The presentations
Ron McLachlin, Paul D. Larson
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Examining the trend of humanitarian supply chain studies: pre, during and post COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2022 Purpose – This research aims to shed light on the trend of humanitarian supply chain (HSC) studies in the era of pre, during and post coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic outbreaks.
Nor Aida Abdul Rahman +3 more
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The COVID-19 response: considerations for future humanitarian supply chain and logistics management research [PDF]
Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2021 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is three-fold: (1) this editorial viewpoint gives context to the manuscripts included in this special issue on pandemics and epidemics.
Denise D.P. Thompson, Renata Anderson
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Performance assessment of humanitarian supply chain by using gray approach [PDF]
مدیریت تولید و عملیات, 2019 Iran is a country where the rate of natural disasters is high comparing with other countries. Therefore, humanitarian supply chain management before, during and after disasters is of great importance.
Mohammad Reza Sadeghi Moghadam +2 more
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Human rights for refugees: enhancing sustainable humanitarian supply chain to guarantee a health environment in refugee settlements [PDF]
Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2022 Purpose – Despite global efforts for environmental protection, there is a gap in the literature about the contributions of a sustainable humanitarian supply chain (SHSC) to the promotion of human rights in refugee settlements. In this context, this study
Alexandre Augusto Karl +1 more
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International and local NGO supply chain collaboration [PDF]
Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2018 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the key drivers and challenges to supply chain collaboration in the humanitarian sector; to appraise the relationships between international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and local non ...
Samar Al Adem +3 more
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Measuring humanitarian supply chain performance in a multi-goal context [PDF]
Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2015 Purpose – – The purpose of the paper is to deepen the understanding of supply chain performance objectives in the humanitarian context by striving to understand the underlying goals and conceptual variables behind the measurement of performance, such as
Ira Haavisto, Jarrod Goentzel
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Internal integration in humanitarian supply chain management [PDF]
Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2017 Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare perspectives on humanitarian logistics (HL) and supply chain management (SCM) among programmes and logistics/support staff.
David Makepeace, Peter Tatham, Yong Wu
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Humanitarian aid: an agile supply chain? [PDF]
Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, 2006 PurposeThe purpose of this article is to investigate the nature of the humanitarian aid supply chain and discuss the extent to which certain business supply chain concepts, particularly supply chain agility, are relevant to humanitarian aid.Design/methodology/approachThe paper identifies elements of good practice in conventional business supply chains ...
Oloruntoba, Richard, Gray, Richard
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