Measuring and improving the impact of humanitarian logistics consulting

Wagner, Stephan M.; Thakur-Weigold, Bublu; Gatti, Federico; Stumpf, Jonas

doi:10.1080/09537287.2020.1712748

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“…This leads to the absence of a centralized, integrated management and planning system. The lack of a comprehensive approach often leads to multiple stakeholders' parallel acts that may result in overlap or interference of relief activities [29]. In addition, with no lead time and no reliable transportation, the complexity of the challenges becomes multifold.…”

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Key Challenges to Sustainable Humanitarian Supply Chains: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

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COVID-19 has had a major impact on health, economic, social, and industrial activities. It has disrupted supply chain management and affected the movement of essential supplies to a large extent. This study aims to identify and evaluate the challenges hampering sustainable humanitarian supply chain management (SHSCM). Twenty critical challenges to SHSCM are identified using a comprehensive literature review, and three strategies were developed. The challenges and strategies were verified using expert input. The challenges were evaluated using the neutrosophic analytic hierarchical process (AHP) method. The neutrosophic TODIM (an acronym in Portuguese for interactive multicriteria decision making) method was then used to select the best strategy. The findings reveal that facility location problems, short lead times for emergency supplies, spread of rumors, rapid emergence of new clusters, and doubt concerning the available remedy are five critical challenges in SHSCM during COVID-19. Public–private partnerships are identified as the best strategy in SHSCM. Finally, this paper discusses the implications to sustainable development goals in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era.

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Key Challenges to Sustainable Humanitarian Supply Chains: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

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“…As the COVID-19 pandemic impact escalated, unprecedented uncertainty and risk surrounding availability, access and affordability of medical supplies lead to panic buying and stockpiling of medical supplies, creating unanticipated demand shocks, stockouts and systematic disruptions of HCSCs. For humanitarian logistics, private business and governments, medical stockouts escalated the challenges of delivering medical relief and increasing life or death risks for COVID-19 patients and their communities (Mack, 2020; Besiou and Van Wassenhove, 2020; Schiffling et al , 2020; Wagner et al , 2020).…”

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A collaborative approach to maintaining optimal inventory and mitigating stockout risks during a pandemic: capabilities for enabling health-care supply chain resilience

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PurposeInventory management systems in health-care supply chains (HCSC) have been pushed to breaking point by the COVID-19 pandemic. Unanticipated demand shocks due to stockpiling of medical supplies caused stockouts, and the stockouts triggered systematic supply chain (SC) disruptions inconceivable for risk managers working individually with limited information about the pandemic. The purpose of this paper is to respond to calls from the United Nations (UN) and World Health Organization (WHO) for coordinated global action by proposing a research agenda based on a review of current knowledge and knowledge gaps on the role of collaboration in HCSCs in maintaining optimal stock levels and reinforcing resilience against stockout disruptions during pandemics.Design/methodology/approachA systematic review was conducted, and a total of 752 articles were analyzed.FindingsCollaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment practices are under-researched in the HCSC literature. Similarly, a fragmented application of extant SC collaborative risk management capabilities undermines efforts to enhance resilience against systematic disruptions from medical stockouts. The paucity of HCSC articles in humanitarian logistics and SC journals indicates a need for more research interlinking two interdependent yet critical fields in responding to pandemics.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough based on an exhaustive search of academic articles addressing HCSCs, there is a possibility of having overlooked other studies due to search variations in language controls, differences in publication cycle time and database search engines.Originality/valueThe paper relies on COVID-19's uniqueness to highlight the limitations in optimization and individualistic approaches to managing medical inventory and stockout risks in HCSCs. The paper proposes a shift from a fragmented to holistic application of relevant collaboration practices and capabilities to enhance the resilience of HCSCs against stockout ripple effects during future pandemics. The study propositions and suggestion for an SC learning curve provide an interdisciplinary research agenda to trigger early preparation of a coordinated HCSC and humanitarian logistics response to future pandemics.

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“…Due to the unpredictable nature of the events relating to a disaster, humanitarian supply chains are often hastily formed (Tatham and Kovács 2010 ; Dubey et al 2019a ; Queiroz et al 2020 ; Wagner et al 2020 ; Modgil et al 2020 ). Hence, designing a humanitarian supply chain is a far more complex activity relative to designing a commercial supply chain (Holguín-Veras et al 2012 ; Banomyong et al 2019 ; Shareef et al 2019 ; Stewart and Ivanov 2019 ).…”

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Agility in humanitarian supply chain: an organizational information processing perspective and relational view

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Humanitarian organizations are increasingly facing challenges in terms of improving the efficiency and the effectiveness of their disaster relief efforts. These challenges often arise due to a lack of trust, poor collaboration and an inability to respond to disaster affected areas in a timely manner. Our study attempts to understand how these challenges are overcome by seeking answers to questions related to the topics of swift-trust, collaboration and agility in humanitarian supply chains. For instance, in our study we have attempted to examine how information sharing and supply chain visibility in humanitarian supply chains improve the swift-trust among the humanitarian actors engaged in disaster relief operations. Further, we attempt to understand how-swift trust, commitment and collaboration among the humanitarian actors improve the agility in humanitarian supply chains. In our study we provide both theoretical and data-driven answers to our stated research gaps. Our theoretical model is firmly grounded in organizational information process theory and relational view. We tested our research hypotheses using variance based structural equation modelling with survey data collected using a web based pre-tested instrument from 147 NGOs respondents drawn from the National Disaster Management Authority database. Our results help to advance the theoretical debates surrounding “swift-trust”, “collaboration” and “agility” in humanitarian settings. We further provide direction to managers engaged in disaster relief operations. The humanitarian actors engaged in disaster relief often fail to understand how to build swift-trust. Moreover, how swift-trust further affects commitment and collaboration which in turn further affect agility in humanitarian supply chains. Thus humanitarian organizations must understand how information sharing and supply chain visibility is key to swift-trust among humanitarian actors and agility in humanitarian supply chains. Finally, we outline the limitations of our study and offer some future research directions for investigation.

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Measuring and improving the impact of humanitarian logistics consulting

Cited by 13 publications

References 48 publications

Key Challenges to Sustainable Humanitarian Supply Chains: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Key Challenges to Sustainable Humanitarian Supply Chains: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

A collaborative approach to maintaining optimal inventory and mitigating stockout risks during a pandemic: capabilities for enabling health-care supply chain resilience

Agility in humanitarian supply chain: an organizational information processing perspective and relational view

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