14 Humanitarian operations and supply chain management
Daniele Alesani and Alexander Hiedemann
14.1 Defining humanitarian supply chain
“Supply chain” (SC) is a term grounded in business literature, therefore, our analysis should start from common definitions commonly utilized by the global industry to then operationalize it further to the humanitarian context.
The council of supply chain management professionals offers a meaningful, cross-sectoral definition of SC as “the planning and management of all activities involved in sourcing and procurement, conversion, and all logistics management activities until the finished product reaches the end consumer”. The definition offered by the Chartered Institute of Procurement ...
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