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Supply chain management involves more than delivering products to a destination. It requires orchestrating the transportation, distribution, storage and timely delivery of inventory, while minimizing costs and serving the maximum number of consumers. It is a desperate balancing act when human life is at stake.
In the case of disaster management the supplier is Government and NGO's and Customer is the affected people. SCM will cover issues like Information, Suppliers, Distribution, Transportation, Distribution centers and warehousing, Rail, Trucking, Air, Water, Pipeline, Forecasting, Strategic Planning, Capacity Planning, Inventory Management, Logistics, Kaizen cross functional team to plan and deliver and Materials Requirements planning.

Below are given an example of a corporate supply chain and Humanitarian supply chain. The difference lies between the fact that in a corporate supply chain we have stockholders and customers while in a humanitarian supply chain we have donors and the beneficiaries. Also, the direction of arrows will give an insight as to how the flow of materials and information takes place before and after disasters respectively.

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* Contributed by: -
Anshuman Harjai & Ibin Issac Abraham,
Management Development Institute, Gurgaon.