Logistics industry rises to the humanitarian challenge

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Involvement in humanitarian logistics is, perhaps somewhat surprisingly, one of the areas of the supply chain industry that few operators like to brag about. But it is a big business – in 2010 the UN spent $7bn of its humanitarian aid budget on logistics – and as a result the sector is getting slicker and more professional in the way it treats logistics operations and requirements. This article identifies three key areas.