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Webinar: Introduction to Supply Chain Management
On March 15, 2004, Dr. Benita Beamon presented a webinar entitled “Introduction to Supply Chain Management”. This webinar included dozens of participants from Humanitarian Relief Organizations around the world.
Summary: The objectives of this presentation are: (1) to provide a
general introduction to supply chain management (SCM),
including basic challenges, modeling, and the elements of
supply chain design, and (2) to highlight some of the critical
similarities and differences between commercial logistics and
humanitarian logistics. Topics in performance measurement include
a framework for performance measurement selection in
SCM and characteristics of effective measurement systems.
The discussion concludes by comparing and contrasting
commercial and humanitarian logistics.
Webinar:
http://www.engr.washington.edu/edge/fritz_enhanced/fritz.htm
Conference Publication in Humanitarian Logistics
Beamon, Benita M. (2004). “Humanitarian Relief Chains: Issues and Challenges”, The 34th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, November 14-16, San Francisco, CA. PDF Version
See publications webpage for journal articles in
humanitarian relief.
Humanitarian Logistics Course
IND E 599 Humanitarian Logistics course webpage.