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Delivering Relief Aid at a Moment’s Notice

Airfreight Logistics

Behind the scenes of the Aid & Relief sector, work is continuously underway to make sure when a crisis occurs, supplies and teams are ready. The primary objectives of humanitarian aid are to save lives, alleviate suffering, and to provide materials and assistance to people in need. Mr. Stuart Smith. Handling it All.

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Stuck on the wrong side of the world but still needing to deliver food to people in Ethiopia 5,000…

World Food Programme Logistics

So, I’m using my personal one now and learning how to scan documents on my phone and how to survive without being able to print anything, but perhaps I’m saving some trees in the process! and a printer of course. WhatsApp and Messenger are the most efficient ways to reach my team in Pugnido now. Sunset by the lake in Pokhara.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

Darren Prokop, University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA): As in the academic world in general, there is a trend to online course delivery. Another trend is learning how to deal with the avalanche of data that supply chain managers have at their fingertips. My courses change from year to year based on industry events and trends.

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‘One step forward, two steps back’

World Food Programme Logistics

At the beginning, COVID-19 was an unknown, rapidly-spreading pandemic and global health authorities were still identifying protocols, what high risk meant and how it was spread, how to protect ourselves. Aid workers were stuck all around the world and we needed to get them to the places where they were needed most.