SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES TOWARDS HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES IN MANUFACTURING ORGANIZATION
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Supply Chain Management (SCM) Challenges, Operation Flow, Information Integration, Technology, Humanitarian OrganizationAbstract
Logistics and supply chain management has become critically essential not only for private sector logisticians, but becoming more important for humanitarian’s activities. Currently, humanitarian logistics become a back-office role that was not given appropriate consideration and logistics services persisted under developed[1]. However, logistics has ongoing to be acknowledged as integral to any relief operation. Supply chain challenges can lead to delays in carriage of supplies to the affected areas that are targeted by humanitarian organizations[2]. As a results, the basic supplies cannot be transported to where there are to be needed. Besides, it might become challenging to respond proficiently towards a humanitarian disaster when there is high uncertainty among humanitarian organizations due to supply chain challenges [3]. Factors that affecting humanitarian activities that have been studies in this paper are operation flow, information integration and technology. The major purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which the challenges of operation flow, information integration and technology influence the effective logistical coordination among the humanitarian organizations in Malaysia with hoping that the knowledge of this study will provide valuable contributions to humanitarian organization in developing remarkable approaches to improve organization competence and success.
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