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