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Fritz inducted into Logistics Hall of Fame

Logistics Business Magazine

The entrepreneur also pushed for initiatives to systematically train logistics personnel and evaluate humanitarian missions with the help of key figures. Fritz also founded the first association for humanitarian aid workers in the USA and established a consortium of companies that provide logistics experts and donate money when needed.

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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. saves up to four US Dollars in humanitarian aid after a disaster. Droughts are driving millions of people out of their homes worldwide.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Another trend is learning how to deal with the avalanche of data that supply chain managers have at their fingertips. Data from barcodes, RFID tags, GPS systems, and the Internet of Things (IoT) mean that managers not only have to be good analysts, but they also have to be good at understanding the supply chain system instinctually.

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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. He had started his career as a civil engineer three decades earlier in Switzerland and then Nepal.