Transforming Humanitarian Logistics¶
Tatham, P. H., & Pettit, S. J. (2010). Transforming Humanitarian Logistics: The Journey to Supply Network Management. International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 40(8), 609-622.
Cited by¶
2 citations across 2 artifacts.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Primes¶
- Last Mile Delivery
- Education and healthcare delivery. Curriculum and clinical knowledge produce and distribute at scale; the final adapted, paced teaching interaction or patient-specific clinical encounter is the cost-and-complexity sink that resists consolidation. Customer onboarding and humanitarian aid. Per-customer configuration, training, and integration often cost more than the product; supplies reach the regional hub but the last segment to displaced populations through damaged infrastructure consumes most operational cost.
This sourceDiscusses the 'last hundred metres' / final-reach problem in humanitarian aid distribution to displaced populations through damaged infrastructure.
- Education and healthcare delivery. Curriculum and clinical knowledge produce and distribute at scale; the final adapted, paced teaching interaction or patient-specific clinical encounter is the cost-and-complexity sink that resists consolidation. Customer onboarding and humanitarian aid. Per-customer configuration, training, and integration often cost more than the product; supplies reach the regional hub but the last segment to displaced populations through damaged infrastructure consumes most operational cost.
- Last-Mile Failure
- In humanitarian aid, pallets reach the airport while reaching the displaced household two valleys over is the failure point — the "last hundred metres" problem.
This sourceDocuments the humanitarian 'last hundred metres' problem — supplies reach the airport while reaching the displaced household is the failure point.
- In humanitarian aid, pallets reach the airport while reaching the displaced household two valleys over is the failure point — the "last hundred metres" problem.
Verification¶
Does it exist? Confirmed. This work's DOI resolves to a registered record, which fixes its identity. That is all it fixes.
Does it back the claim? Not recorded. Neither this nor any other of the 2 citations of this work carries a recorded support check.
Support is checked per citation rather than per work — the same source can be cited soundly in one article and wrongly in another. Per-citation recording began recently, so a citation with no recorded check is a gap in the record rather than evidence it went unchecked.
See how references were verified.
Registry ID ref:dfaa30503c11 · see in the full table