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Three solutions against climate change, simply explained

World Food Programme Logistics

These data lay the foundation for an exact planning of future aid programmes. In this camp for internally displaced people in Somalia, families are dependent on food aid. for example in early warning systems, better weather forecasts and protective infrastructure such as dams? How does forecast-based financing work?

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

For example, as online sales reach a record high, B2C service provider Jet.com uses some creative logistics concepts to bring value to customers. Another trend is learning how to deal with the avalanche of data that supply chain managers have at their fingertips. They must know which data deserves priority for a given problem.

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From civil engineering to civil conflict: Portrait of an aid boss

World Food Programme Logistics

Photo: WFP One early autumn day in 2015, Chief Information Officer Jakob Kern sat in a reassuringly beige New York conference room, explaining how the aid world’s tech teams are turning to data to help feed people. safe, unhindered access so that aid workers can do what they are meant to do, deliver.