Characteristics of relief supply chains and emergency response supply chains

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: A, Heriot-Watt-University Edinburgh, course: Humanitarian & Relief Logistics, language: English, abstract: This report compares and contrasts relief SCs providing long-term aid and emergency response SCs that are used in the initial stages of large, sudden-onset disasters. The report will be divided into three parts: introduction to humanitarian logistics, the importance of aid agencies as well as a comparison of both SC types.