Humanitarian Relief Chain

Amiya K. Chakravarty
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Amiya K. Chakravarty: DM School of Business Northeastern University

Chapter 8 in Supply Chain Transformation, 2014, pp 237-272 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Onset of a major disaster requires immediate effort to save human lives. The annual global cost of natural disasters is expected to exceed $300 billion by the year 2050. Saving lives or minimizing suffering, is the prime driver of humanitarian relief. It requires multiple capabilities: fund raising, logistics expertise, medical care, aid dispensing, evacuation, and rehabilitation. As individual organizations cannot possess every capability, multiple organizations comprising the UN, relief organizations, governments, and the military must collaborate. Logistics activities include prepositioning of inventory, setting up warehouses, rapid delivery of supplies in real time, managing a mix of transportation modes, transporting equipment and workers, repairing communication and transportation infrastructure, devising procurement contracts with suppliers, and using 3rd party service providers where feasible.

Keywords: Supply Chain; Global Position System; Geographic Information System; Disaster Relief; Federal Emergency Management Agency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41911-9_8

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