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This course is offered in a blended format with content presented both online and face-to-face.

Relief requirements for public health and humanitarian events are in general both unknown in size and type, and are affected by dynamic and hard to measure factors such as geographic location, local economy, infrastructure, social and political conditions, etc. Preparing for long-term development and response to emergent events often involves uncertainty in timing, scope, or scale. Pre-planning for these situations requires an understanding of forecasting, distribution network design, and strategies for managing the uncertainty. This course will examine methods and models for making pre-planning decisions and explore the significant value that is obtained through informed decision-making in advance of an unpredictable event.

• Tactical & strategic members of Non-governmental organizations
• Private corporations involved in the humanitarian relief efforts
• US Federal government employees
• US State or local government employees
• Humanitarian Foundation members
• TITLES: Program Managers, Director of Field Operations, Disaster Relief Manager, Director of Logistics & Inventory, Logistics Officers

• Develop and apply analytical models to aid in distribution and routing decisions under uncertain conditions
• Identify and apply the appropriate forecasting technique considering characteristics such as seasonality and trends.
• Provide immediate impact to their organization through learnings gained from applied and real-world case studies
• Learn to bring NGOs, businesses, and/or government entities together to enhance collaboration, cooperation, and communication
• Discover current trends and procedures to help their organizations and team members get ahead and stay ahead of the curve
• Build a critical knowledge base to make tactical decisions around inventory, routing, and distribution
• Deliver best-practices to measure and evaluate outcomes of humanitarian relief efforts
• Ultimately transform the humanitarian sector with increased capacity to participate in planning and strategic decision-making for effective supply chain management

• Participants receive readings, case studies, spreadsheet files, and lecture slides.
• Participants should each bring a laptop with Microsoft Excel and wi-fi capability.

• Julie Swann
• Ozlem Ergun
• Pinar Keskinocak

Expected time for Pre- and Post-Course Activities total:  7.5 hours

NOTE:  Pre-course and post-course activities will conducted online using an online learning management system. Access instructions will be provided to registrants when details become available.