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.