SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Supply Chain Management“Management is on the verge of a major breakthrough in understanding how industrial company success depends on the interactions between the flows of information, materials, money, manpower, and capital equipment. The way these five flow systems interlock to amplify one another and to cause change and fluctuation will form the basis for anticipating the effects of decisions, policies, organizational forms, and investment choices.”

Forrester 1958

Supply Chain Management

The processes coordinating the flow of supplies, finances, and information from a source to a customer.

Supplier Manufacturer Distributor Retailer Customer

Information

Finances

Supplies

Beneficiaries

$ $

Donors

Humanitarian Organizations Supplies

INFORMATION

$Money

Humanitarian Supply Chains

“Humanitarian supply chain refers to the network created through the flow of supplies, services, finances and information between donors, beneficiaries, suppliers and different units of humanitarian organizations for the purpose of providing physical aid to beneficiaries.”

Beneficiaries

Program Staff

$

Donor

Field Program

Local Instituions

Monitoring and Evaluation

Vendor

Transit Warehouse

Warehouse

Distribution

Cars

Pre-positioned Stock

$

$ $

Procurement

Trucks

Asset Management Fleet Management

Program Staff

Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Beneficiaries

Program Staff

$

Donor

Field Program

Local Instituions

Monitoring and Evaluation

HUMANITARIAN SUPPLY CHAIN

Vendor

Transit Warehouse

Warehouse

Distribution

Cars

Pre-positioned Stock

$

$ $

Procurement

Trucks

Asset Management Fleet Management

HUMANITARIAN LOGISTICS

Program Staff

Supply Chain Management

• Strategic

• Holistic

• Relationships

• Integrated

• Sharing Information

• Collaborative

• Cooperative