Category Archives: Humanitarian supply chains

Now: DSI

Posted on November 21, 2011 by | Leave a comment

DSI 2011 comes with insights to the state of the art research in logistics, humanitarian logistics (even as a keynote), green SCM, and sports stats – just how to share the blame, and more interestingly, how to attribute performance shares. There is a nice young talent showcase track, though there seems to be a lack of young talent overall, at least if one considers the relatively few applicants to lots of jobs that were interviewed for at the conference.

A take-away is a call for multi-disciplinary and multi-method research, though multi-disciplinary stands for the good old OR+marketing, and multi-method for anything empirical that feeds into a model. Funny we are still trying to bridge the gaps between all sorts of different streams that feed into SCM research, seemingly not successfully.

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Conferences, Humanitarian supply chains, Logistics, Operations management, Supply Chain Management

New book: Relief Supply Chain for Disasters: Humanitarian, Aid and Emergency Logistics

Posted on August 16, 2011 by | 4 Comments

Out at last, a more research-oriented anthology on humanitarian logistics called “Relief Supply Chain for Disasters: Humanitarian, Aid and Emergency Logistics“.

And if the entire book isn’t necessary, one can always get just individual chapters on e.g. different types of partnerships, comparisons of different disasters, various aspects of peacekeeping activities (e.g. local sourcing in peacekeeping) etc., greening relief supply chains, or even an analysis that looks into the impact of disasters in light of the logistics performance of a country. Enjoy!

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Academic publications, Book review, Disaster management, humanitarian, Humanitarian supply chains, Supply chain disruption

First issue of JHLSCM now online

Posted on May 31, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Following up on its announcement, the first number of the brand new Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management is finally out – follow this link!

And the next one’s already in the publication process :-)

Gyöngyi

PS edited 3.6. – the journal has a free access period right now, check it out!

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Posted in Academic journals, Academic publications, Call for papers, Disaster management, humanitarian, Humanitarian supply chains, Supply chain disruption, Supply Chain Management

Literature review made easy

Posted on April 7, 2011 by | 1 Comment

There are lots of literature reviews and conceptual papers out there so this is not the thing. This “ListAssist” is making the start easier listing key articles and book chapters in particular areas denoting their content but also their methods. There are three within the area of “operations and logistics management”: logistics and supply chain management, humanitarian logistics, and sustainable technology management. A good start making research – and teaching – somewhat easier.

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Academic publications, Humanitarian supply chains, Logistics, Operations management, Research & Methodology, Supply Chain Management, Sustainability

New book: Humanitarian Logistics

Posted on March 30, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Fresh from the oven, it arrived today on my desk, Christopher & Tatham‘s new book on “Humanitarian Logistics: Meeting the challenge of preparing for and responding to disasters“. It collects important insights from practitioners as well as academics. A wonderful read.

Recently, another book came out as well, Pamela Steele‘s “Humanitarian Logistics: A career for women“. It is a mosaic of inspiring stories of humanitarian logisticians, mostly from the field – and complements the academic view rather well.

The next related book (called “Relief Supply Chain for Disasters: Humanitarian, aid and emergency logistics“) is on its way, coming out in May and in that coinciding with the first number of the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management.  Stay tuned :-)

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Academic journals, Academic publications, Book review, Disaster management, humanitarian, Humanitarian supply chains

Research in social networks

Posted on October 7, 2010 by | 3 Comments

Some social networks have started out with a purpose to link professionals and track their links – now they are back to this purpose. Students have for a long time posted surveys on blogs but also facebook pages. Now researchers have come to embrace social networks to disseminate their output – which itself can take the form of classical articles (“fresh from the oven, who wants a copy”), books or, perhaps more suitable for this purpose, webinars. (Here is a book on “Humanitarian Logistics – a Career for Women“, spotted through the Linkedin WISE platform, and a webinar on “SMART service supply chains“.) Conferences have their own facebook sites (e.g. CSCMP) and even journals and groups of journals (e.g. the Elsevier transportation facebook page). More seriously, here is a link to a book on social network analysis methods, and ironically, a network for social network analysis. And why not, there are even social networks dedicated to research…

Gyöngyi

PS. The movie “the social network” should also be out by now.

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Posted in Academic publications, Humanitarian supply chains, Popular science, Service management, Socks and sandals

New journal: Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Posted on March 4, 2010 by | 2 Comments

Humanitarian logistics research now has a new, dedicated outlet: the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management. The first call for papers can be accessed here – and the first number is scheduled to come out in early 2011.

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Academic journals, Call for papers, humanitarian, Humanitarian supply chains, Logistics, Operations management, Supply Chain Management

Call for chapters in relief supply chain management

Posted on October 26, 2009 by | 1 Comment

Post the Ottawa conference on “Relationship building in humanitarian logistics” and a doctoral course on “Supply chain management in disaster relief“, here’s a first call for chapters for a book on relief supply chain management, with an intended audience comprised of academics, students, and interested practitioners. Deadline for chapter proposals extended to Dec 5, 2009, follow this link for further details.

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Academic publications, Call for papers, humanitarian, Humanitarian supply chains

Now: LRN 2009

Posted on September 11, 2009 by | 2 Comments

Here we are at the Logistics Research Network conference in Cardiff. This year’s presentations were of outstanding quality. Not surprisingly there was a big green logistics track, with anything from green SCM capabilities to CO2 emissions in cities to transportation emissions represented. Other interesting (or let’s say, unusual ones) were on food supply chains and logistics education. Humanitarian logistics figured again.

A novelty at this conference was a “best poster” award. What a great idea! People had been put down about not getting into the proceedings and “just” presenting a poster. Funny that poster sessions in say, health care, or engineering, are seen as really positive, while at logistics conferences they are less appreciated. But posters have their own place at a conference, for research in its early phase, as well as to find collaborators for new projects. So why don’t SCM academics want to present posters at a conference?

Gyöngyi

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Posted in Carbon management, Conferences, Humanitarian supply chains, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Sustainability

Two more CFPs in humanitarian logistics

Posted on February 9, 2009 by | 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

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