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Humanitarian aid: an agile supply chain?

The concept of “agility” Agility has been defined as “the ability to thrive and prosper in an environment of constant and unpredictable change”; as “all about customer responsiveness and mastering market turbulence” International humanitarian supply chains are clearly unpredictable, turbulent, and requiring flexibility, and therefore insights are to be gained from assessing their potential as agile supply chains.

The decoupling point The decoupling point is where a product in the supply chain ceases to be forecast-based and becomes a specific customer order (Van Hoek, 1997), or where market “pull” meets upstream “push” Christopher and Towill (2000). The latter suggest that there are two decoupling points: for strategic inventory, maintained in a generic form as far downstream as possible (the principle of postponement); and for demand information, which should move as far upstream as possible. They propose that the proper location of decoupling points for material and information flows can produce a hybrid supply chain that combines a lean and efficient supply upstream and an agile and effective supply downstream.

The concept of leanness This research note adopts the definition of Lamming of “value-adding processes unencumbered by waste”. Applying this principle, the humanitarian supply chain at the level of the international donor in developed countries should be lean for upstream activities such as needs assessment (remote demand forecasting), mobilisation of sufficient financing, people, skills and goods, procurement, transport sourcing, disaster preparation and planning and related upstream supply chain activities.

Agility Upstream activities in the humanitarian supply chain are usually lauded for their “agility”. For example, credit is given to the speed with which a particular appeal can be instituted, and how generously and quickly donors can respond to a one-off event. Attraction of donors to a cause is largely based on such “agility appeal”, and it may prove difficult to convince donors of the desirability of the routines and procedures necessary for longer-term supply chain efficiency and the waste elimination associated with leanness, but which have low media impact.

Pre-positioning The inability of international humanitarian organisations to make particular relief items available is critical for many suffering people. Therefore, pre-positioning aims to position supplies or other resources at or near places where they are likely to be required. As a form of advanced planning, pre-positioning occurs in both military and humanitarian logistics.

Postponement The concept of postponement, which is in some respects the opposite of pre- positioning, has been associated with the decoupling points of supply chains in various articles. Postponement is intended to reduce the “anticipatory risk” of logistics, postponing commitment of inventory (both in form and in time) until customer orders are received. Applying effective demand-led inventory management through the principle of postponement may prove a cost-effective substitute for pre-positioning, enabling assignment of relief supplies to be as rapid as appropriate. These supplies, held as generic “strategic inventory”, are then distributed according to the evolving needs of the end users. The postponement of commitment of inventory to final delivery results in the use of more accurate data and reliability of information about recipients' immediate needs. Maintenance of generic inventory may also help overcome security risks, including the risk of diversion away from aid recipients or the potential for violence.

“Feed forward mechanism” The humanitarian supply chain, through an effective information infrastructure and sensitive needs assessment mechanism at the field level, would enhance supply chain agility by being very responsive to the changing needs of end users, and by being able to respond almost immediately to those changes. The agile supply chain is capable of reading and responding to real demand as it is demand driven and activated with a “feed forward mechanism” from the field for data on actual end user requirements. The need and scope for “remote forecasting” of needs in the international donor countries would be much diminished, hence waste and costs from inaccurate forecasting and forecasting errors are reduced. The humanitarian supply chain thus becomes more information-based.