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TR N EW S 287 JULY–AUG UST 2013 11 Menzies is President, American Logistics Aid Network, Annapolis, Maryland, and Chairman, Terminal Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland. Helferich is Professor, Supply Chain Management, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant.
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TR N EW S 28 7 JU LY –A UG US T 20 13 12 quakes in Padang, Indonesia; the 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear power plant event in Japan; and the 2011 flooding in Thailand. Field research has estimated that logistics account for 60 percent to 80 percent of expenditures by aid agencies.
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TR N EW S 287 JULY–AUG UST 2013 13 communications, or the stage of the event -- may yield ambiguous objectives. Limited resources hamper assessments of the needs, as well as the ability to obtain the appropriate types and amounts of equipment and materials for search and rescue and for survival and recovery.
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TR N EW S 28 7 JU LY –A UG US T 20 13 14 Research and experience, however, point to critical differences in the two types of networks, as presented in Table 2 (below)
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TR N EW S 287 JULY–AUG UST 2013 15 ness during nondisaster periods. Table 3 (below)
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TR N EW S 28 7 JU LY –A UG US T 20 13 16 uous improvement models to a humanitarian initiative providing clean water to poverty-level families in the Dominican Republic. The pilot used several LSS tools, including DMAIC, cause-and-effect diagrams, checklists, process flow charts, control plans, activity networks, and audit guides.
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TR N EW S 287 JULY–AUG UST 2013 17 Humanitarian relief has broadened its focus from particu-lar response situations to the strategic -- that is, how best to operate a sustainable network. Many corporations build a culture of sustainability by establishing standards of performance and implementing continuous process improvement (CPI)
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