The Palgrave Handbook Of Humanitarian Logistics And Supply Chain Management
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Author | : Gyöngyi Kovács |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 759 |
Release | : 2017-10-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1137590998 |
Focusing on the specific challenges of research design and exploring the opportunities of conducting research in humanitarian logistics and supply chain management, this handbook is a significant contribution to future research. Chapters include extensive descriptions of methods used, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages, and the challenges in scoping, sampling, collecting and analysing data, as well as ensuring the quality of studies. Covering a wide variety of topics including risk and resilience and the impact of humanitarian logistics on capacity building, sustainability and the local economy, it also explores the need for scalability and co-ordination in the humanitarian network. Contributors provide important insight on future directions and offer crucial guidance for researchers conducting projects within the field.
Author | : Ira Haavisto |
Publisher | : Kogan Page Publishers |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2016-08-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0749474696 |
Supply Chain Management for Humanitarians provides an in-depth insight into the management of supply chains in the context of humanitarian logistics. This accessible and practical book considers humanitarian logistics from a strategic and operational perspective. The overarching theme is collaboration and coordination, one of the biggest challenges in the humanitarian community. Supply Chain Management for Humanitarians takes a problem-based learning approach, featuring real cases and examples from leading organizations including Oxfam, Unicef, and The Red Cross. Each chapter is self-standing, relating the content in each chapter to the supply chain as a whole. This enables the reader to easily dip into different sections. At the end of each chapter, there is a case study written by a leading practitioner currently working in the humanitarian field. Supply Chain Management for Humanitarians fills a much needed gap in the market and is essential reading for humanitarians worldwide.
Author | : B.S. Sahay |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2015-09-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 8132224167 |
This book discusses emerging themes in the area of humanitarian logistics. It examines how humanitarian logistics and supply chains play a key role, focusing on rapidly delivering the correct amount of goods, people and monetary resources to the locations needed to achieve the success of relief efforts in response to global emergencies such as flood, earthquakes, wars etc. With an increase in the frequency, magnitude and impact of both natural and manmade disasters, effective delivery of humanitarian aid is an issue that is becoming increasingly important in the context of disaster management. The book focuses on how logistics systems and supply chains responsible for delivering this aid from origin to recipients can be made more effective and efficient. It also discusses how the development of information technology systems that can provide visibility to the disaster relief supply chain marks a huge step forward for the humanitarian sector as a whole. As more organizations begin to adopt and implement these systems and visibility is established, the use of key performance indicators will then become essential to further enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of these supply chains.
Author | : Graham Heaslip |
Publisher | : Kogan Page Publishers |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2022-12-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1398607150 |
In rapidly developing emergencies, it is vital for aid agencies to understand how to establish an agile supply chain that resists the chaos of a crisis and can cater to unknown needs. Now in its fourth edition, Humanitarian Logistics presents chapters from a wide range of academics and practitioners and offers cutting edge research into how complex problems such as distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine and provision of relief to victims of natural disasters can be solved. New chapters cover topics such as cash-based humanitarian logistics (HL) systems, sustainability in a HL context and providing logistics services for humanitarian relief. In recent years, a number of global crises have highlighted the critical role that logistics plays in humanitarian response. There is a vital need to understand how to conduct operations in confused and swiftly changing environments. This book is essential reading for anyone who needs to understand how to effectively manage supply networks during a rapidly developing emergency.
Author | : Alexander Blecken |
Publisher | : Haupt Verlag AG |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business logistics |
ISBN | : 3258075883 |
Author | : Joseph Sarkis |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-02-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9783031198830 |
This handbook offers a comprehensive presentation of the field of supply chain management. Divided into six sections, it addresses broad strategic issues, then focuses in on specific locations and technology issues along the supply chain. The chapters explore topics related to upstream supply chain management, organizational operations and management of supply chains, downstream supply chain management, transportation and logistics management, with strategic, technology, economic, and operational dimensions also covered. Further, the book includes cross-cutting concerns relating to issues such as sustainability, performance management, financial concerns, resilience, and inventory management. Each chapter presents background on the topics, examines the current concerns of interest to practitioners and researchers, identifies future directions of research, and addresses the managerial implications related to the topic With chapters written in an accessible, easy-to-grasp style, this work will serve as a go-to reference for academics, students, and practitioners alike.
Author | : Alessandra Cozzolino |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 53 |
Release | : 2012-07-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 364230186X |
Humanitarian logistics has received increasing interest both from logistics academics and practitioners as a result of the dramatic increase in both natural and man-made disasters. The impact on affected populations can be all the more limited as much as the logistics operations in response to emergencies are effective and efficient. Collaboration with various relevant actors involving in the emergency resolution can help to reduce costs, increase speed, and improve the leanness/agility level in the humanitarian supply chain, and viceversa, poor coordination among them is cited as an explanation for performance gaps. As disasters become increasingly complex better collaboration not only with government agencies, military units, humanitarian organizations, but also through partnerships with private business becomes more and more important. However, such partnerships are not easy as organizations in the two sectors are extremely different. The main aim of this study is exploring more in depth the partnership between profit and non-profit in emergency relief operations, with a specific attention to the cross-learning potential for both the logistics service provider (profit) and the humanitarian organization (non-profit).
Author | : Martin Christopher |
Publisher | : Kogan Page Publishers |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2011-04-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0749462477 |
In 2007, there were 34 armed conflicts worldwide. That same year, a total of 414 natural disasters affected 211 million people. Overall, these natural disasters resulted in 16,847 deaths, and caused $74.9 billion in damages. Humanitarian Logistics examines the key challenges facing those whose role it is to organize and distribute resources in the most difficult of situations. This multi-contributor title includes insights from some of the world's leading experts in humanitarian logistics. It examines key issues including, warehousing, procurement and funding. With particular focus on pre-disaster preparation, rather than post-disaster assistance, Humanitarian Logistics provides current thinking as well as best practice for those who need to understand the many challenges and ways to respond effectively in this crucial area.
Author | : Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus |
Publisher | : IGI Global |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2019-06-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1522581618 |
City logistics is one of the most popular fields of transportation sciences, dealing with sustainably supplying cities and at the same time reducing congestion and pollution related to goods transport in urban areas. Recently, humanitarian, emergency, and crises logistics has been a subject of increasing interest, often seen from an international viewpoint. However, some of the recent natural crises have shown the importance of resilience and reliability of the current urban logistics systems. The Handbook of Research on Urban and Humanitarian Logistics is a critical scholarly publication that addresses urban logistics and resilience, sustainable urban logistics, humanitarian logistics in urban areas both for crisis or long-term, and planning for resilient urban development. Featuring a broad range of topics that discuss the new and future trends in urban logistics and resilient cities, this publication is ideal for public planners; urban planners; company managers in logistics and transport; consulting agencies; regional, national, and international institutions and organizations; researchers; academicians; and students.
Author | : Aruna Apte |
Publisher | : Now Publishers Inc |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1601983360 |
Humanitarian Logistics takes a comprehensive look at the issues surrounding humanitarian logistics through the life-cycle of the disaster spanning three stages of operations: preparation, disaster response, and humanitarian relief.