Humanitarian supply chain

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.

Humanitarian supply chains include functionalities which do not

typically fall into the field of humanitarian logistics. Managing

relationships with donors, performing needs assessments, planning

for supplies required and monitoring and evaluating the impact of

distributed supplies are usually the responsibility of non-logistics

program units.

Steps of humanitarian supply chain are

-Assesment & planning

-Procurement

-Warehouse & Inventory 

-Transport

-Fleet management 

-Cold chain

-Customs 

-Distribution

-Monitoring & Evaluating 

Written By

Gazi Sanaul Hasan