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Two more CFPs in humanitarian logistics

February 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Some special issues are already about to come out, but here are two more CFPs related to humanitarian logistics:

- Supply Chain Forum calling for papers on “Humanitarian supply chains” (editors Ian Heigh and Marianne Jahre, deadline May 1, 2009)

- The International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management calling for papers on “Developments in humanitarian logistics” (editors Peter Tatham and Stephen Pettit, deadline Oct 30, 2009)

Not to forget a CFP that has been in circulation for some time now, on “Doing good with good OR” for Interfaces (DL May 15, 2009) and numerous conferences and conference tracks calling for papers on humanitarian logistics…

Gyöngyi

Categories: Academic journals · Call for papers · Humanitarian supply chains

The watchdog – recent publications in humanitarian logistics

January 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

There are many who claim to be first, having written an entire “book” on humanitarian logistics. If you search for it on Amazon, you’d find that there are a few in the publishing process, e.g. Tomasini & van Wassenhove’s long-awaited overview (that should finally be commercially available in Apr 2009). Just in December 2008, two doctoral dissertations were published in humanitarian logistics: by  Ramina Samii and Sabine Schulz. Ramina’s thesis presents a number of case studies and a typology of partnerships of humanitarian organisations, while Sabine’s thesis looks at the concept of co-operation from the perspective of performance measurement. Whether first or not, they are definitely worth the reading.

Gyöngyi

Categories: Academic publications · Book review · Humanitarian supply chains

Women in SCM – a survey

December 22, 2008 · 1 Comment

No, this is not about women and leadership, but yes about links between skills, gender, and logistics performance – a comparative survey of logisticians and their managers in three fields: business logistics, humanitarian logistics, and military logistics. Click here to fill in the survey – and send the link to your colleagues in the field!

Gyöngyi

PS. Here’s the link to be sent out: http://www.webropol.com/P.aspx?id=276853&cid=55080033

Categories: Humanitarian supply chains · Logistics · Operations management · Research & Methodology · Supply Chain Management · humanitarian · supply chain

Calls for humanitarian logistics research

October 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Good news for researchers in humanitarian logistics, there are more and more conferences setting up specific tracks, and a number of special issues calling for papers on humanitarian logistics, humanitarian supply chains, humanitarian operations… Here’s a bit of a selection:

Apart from POMS’ humanitarian group and INFORMS’ humanitarian track, now also the Transportation Research Forum (TRF) agreed to have a track on humanitarian logistics. (Abstract deadline Oct 31, 2008; contact Paul Larson). A track on “Humanitarian actions and operations” has also been included to the International Conference on Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) conference. (Paper deadline Jan 11, 2009, contact Alexander Blecken.) Last but not least, both NOFOMA 2009 (Jönköping) and LRN 2009 (Cardiff) have humanitarian logistics tracks! (no wonder, both are arranged by HUMLOG Group members ;-) )

Now to some interesting CFPs for special issues of different journals:
- Production and Operations Management calls for papers on “POM research on emerging markets“. Deadline Dec 1, 2008
- Interfaces calls for papers on “Humanitarian applications: doing good with good OR“. Deadline May 15, 2009

Updates can always be found on our wall :-)

Gyöngyi

PS. Note the NOFOMA website having changed to http://www.nofoma.net
PPS. More for humanitarian logisticians, the HUMLOG Group has a self-subscription newsletter (check out the instructions on their website) that is administered by the HUMLOG Institute.

Categories: Call for papers · Humanitarian supply chains · humanitarian

New journal: Operations and Supply Chain Management – an International Journal

July 14, 2008 · 4 Comments

New SCM journals pop up all the time; the latest one taking an ops mgmt view again. Here’s the link to Operations and Supply Chain Management – an International Journal (OSCM). One could also dubb it the “open access SCM journal” as downloads (as for now) are for free, printed copies only obtainable for a fee. I particularly like Benita Beamon’s opening article on “Sustainability and the future of SCM” that does for a change not only look at green SCM, but broadens the scope to diverse societal implications of SCM. Quite in vein of Árni’s “SCM for societal impact“.

And we are still in search for a good name for our textbook on that topic… Any suggestions?

Gyöngyi

Categories: Academic journals · Humanitarian supply chains · Operations management · Supply Chain Management · Sustainability

Doctoral students in humanitarian logistics

June 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment

This is for potential PhD students: Hanken is seeking doctoral students in humanitarian logistics to start in Sep 2008 within the Relief Supply Chain Management project. Applications are due on Aug 4, 2008.

Gyöngyi

Categories: Humanitarian supply chains · Logistics · PhD · Supply Chain Management · humanitarian

Defence logistics research

May 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Logistics research takes many forms, but now a different type of conference invitation landed in my mailbox: one to a “military logistics symposium“. It’s in fact a research convention that’s organised by the Nordic Defence Logistic Research Network and takes place during Dec 4/5 in Stockholm. What makes it particularly interesting is that this research network is quite engaged in humanitarian logistics, and CIMIC research at the same time. Not to forget the traditional defence logistics topics that will come up as well.

Interested? Contact Per Skoglund [firstname.lastname@ihh.hj.se] or Michael Dorn [firstname.lastname@fhs.se] for more info. And don’t forget to send in an abstract by June 25, 2008!

Gyöngyi

Categories: Call for papers · Conferences · Humanitarian supply chains · Logistics · Supply Chain Management

NOFOMA 2008 – Jun 4-6 in Helsinki

November 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment

The abstract deadline for NOFOMA 2008 is approaching soon – note Jan 15 in your calendars! Uniquely, the conference is co-organised by four different universities, actually, ALL of those that have logistics education in the Helsinki region (and yes, I say Helsinki region, because oddly enough, the Helsinki University of Technology is actually located in Espoo, not in Helsinki). The big four are Hanken, the Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki University of Technology, and the National Defence University. Just in time that they’ve started to co-operate, after all this is nothing smaller than the 20th anniversary conference! So you can be sure of a great celebration in Helsinki during Jun 4-6.

While the website is migrating (we are still waiting for access rights), here are the crucial dates to note. And a link to the call for papers. UPDATE: you’ll find the CFP on the Nofoma 2008 page of this blog!

First to the dates:
- Deadline for structured abstracts (for Nofoma and Educators Day): Jan 15, 2008
- Full paper deadline (for Nofoma and Educators Day): Mar 28, 2008
- Revisions, WIP papers, poster sessions, and papers for the NORDLOG doctoral workshop: May 2, 2008
- Early bird registration: May 2, 2008
- NORDLOG Doctoral Workshop: Jun 4, 2008 (at the Helsinki University of Technology)
- NOFOMA Educators Day: Jun 4, 2008 (at the Helsinki School of Economics)
- NOFOMA main conference: Jun 5-6, 2008 (at HANKEN)

As you’ll note from the CFP, there are a couple of new features coming up with the conference.
- First of all, the educators day has a call for papers! I.e. please submit your teaching-relevant publications to the conference! They’ll be reviewed, and the ones that make it as a full paper will be included in the conference proceedings.
- Secondly, there is a poster session with a special deadline.
- And… lots of surprise elements to come. But they wouldn’t be surprises if I were to post them here, would they? ;-)

So, note the dates and have a look at the CFP. You’ll find all traditional logistics/SCM themes on it (from theoretical developments, modelling and simulation tracks, to TPL-related issues, ICT in logistics etc.). And a couple of new ones: humanitarian logistics, security & safety in traffic and transport (greetings to the EU’s 7FP), and healthcare supply chains.

Most importantly, this is a conference with a full paper review. And, best papers will be selected for the International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management.

Welcome to Helsinki in June!

Gyöngyi

Categories: Academic publications · Call for papers · Conferences · Humanitarian supply chains · PhD · Research & Methodology · Supply Chain Management · Theory

Now: CCHLI symposium

November 20, 2007 · 1 Comment

Greetings from the CCHLI symposium on (obviously) humanitarian logistics. Heaps of interesting papers were presented – if anyone wants the proceedings, they can be obtained from Peter Tatham directly.

Paul and Gyöngyi

Categories: Academic publications · Conferences · Humanitarian supply chains

The weather

August 1, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.

Or something like that. But recently, one of the most interesting news themes is the weather. Floods in China, Pakistan, the UK, heatwaves in Central Europe… UNEP reported how dire weather conditions in Darfur lead to famines, displacements, and conflicts; climate change being a direct cause to the crisis in Darfur. The National Geographic even offers a selection of maps looking at the effects of climate change. So what? What is there to do about it? For once, even the Economist featured an article on disaster relief, and I quote: “Disaster relief is basically a giant logistical operation“. Not that this was new (at least not to humanitarian logisticians), but now the news is spreading.

The ball has been passed on to research. And here it comes; GIS researchers have recently developed a model to predict floods. And I just love Stoffel and Meister’s (2004) assessment of avalaunches and the accessibility of their areas… While not a new idea per se, evaluating the (transportation) accessibility of areas can be assisted by GIS models, and vehicle routing can well use surface models. Only the focus is now shifting to disaster relief and its logistical response (see e.g. ESRI’s selection of GIS cases and best practices). While this may not yet challenge Kmitta’s (1999) criticism that the SCM involvement of GIS applications is still limited, it sets a precedence, and probably a new trend in research (see this CFP). Interestingly, when it comes to disaster relief, GIS enters the field of “mobile SCM“. Now this is a buzzword we haven’t heard much about lately, have we? It’s time to get back to dynamic and real-time routing and modelling, time to embrace m-business also in SCM. And if we also embrace carbon management, we might just be able to do something about the weather.

Gyöngyi

Categories: Carbon management · Humanitarian supply chains · Research & Methodology · Supply Chain Management