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Are You Ready For Hurricane Season? Part 4

Camelot 3PL Software

This week’s blog will explore how to be helpful after a hurricane makes landfall and not inhibit the professionals who are handling and coordinating resources at the regional or national levels. Take ALAN’s work for example. Geoff Greenhill, Director of Sales, Camelot 3PL Software. Consider making a donation today.

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Three solutions against climate change, simply explained

World Food Programme Logistics

How to tackle climate change? Proactive instead of reactive: forecast-based financing Humanitarian aid is no exception: the earlier a risk is responded to, the better and more efficient the response is. for example in early warning systems, better weather forecasts and protective infrastructure such as dams?

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Drones to the rescue as Cyclone Desmond storms Mozambique

World Food Programme Logistics

These new skills are the result of multiple training opportunities led by WFP on how to fly, map, and coordinate with UAS. It is an example of how new technology can save lives and help communities hit by disasters within shorter time spans.” UAS Coordination Training Madagascar, August 2018.

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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.

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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. We have different tools to incorporate these trends in our program.