Logistics of Humanitarian Aid

Barriers to information and digital technology adoption in humanitarian supply chain management: a fuzzy AHP approach

“…These organizations do not receive money to invest in the IT process. The preference of donors for short-term improvement compared to long-term planning processes further complicates the performance of HSCs (Ibegbunam and McGill, 2012; Tomasini and Van Wassenhove, 2009). Thus, there is a lack of investment in technology in organizations involved in HSCs (Gustavsson, 2003).…”

“…However, unlike CSCs, HSCs operate under highly complex, uncertain and challenging environments (Akhtar et al. , 2020; Tomasini and Van Wassenhove, 2009). To this end, adopting information and digital technologies (IDTs) may improve organizational performance in HSCs (Marić et al.…”

Toward Humanitarian Supply Chains Enhancement by using Physical Internet Principles

“…Besides, the presence of a politicised environment makes humanitarian relief decisions delicate and subject to outside pressures. As an illustration, the space dedicated to humanitarian operations is often chosen by the government or military and can be limited for security or political reasons [12]. Secondly, the high uncertainty regarding the disaster occurrence, location and damages make difficult assessing and anticipating the needs in resources [13].…”

“…Indeed, a limited knowledge transfer [12], performance measurement [20] and control of distribution [16], as well as long-term consideration often ignored, and neglect of environmental impacts [21] are the source of mismanagement of resources and high costs. Besides, the firefighting approach, defined as "situations where people rush from one crisis to one another without fixing each of them properly and clogging them" [12], mainly used during the response phase generates a lot of waste and forces to omit optimisation considerations. Finally, the emergency context, the destabilised transport network and the novelty of the downstream part of the supply network make logistics efforts inefficient and under-exploit.…”

“…As highlighted, the humanitarian sector faces many and diverse challenges that affect its performance. Recently, logistics and supply chain have been recognized as representing 80% of the disaster-relief efforts [12] and are determining factors for operations' success [2]. Such reveal identifies the supply chain as a subject of improvements to address most of the stakes of HSCs.…”