Support expected to facilitate sharing of time-critical information among organizations, including to deliver relief supplies to the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic as quickly as possible.
Deutsche Post DHL Group and its supply chain risk management platform Resilience360 are supporting the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)-related Global Logistics Cluster, in monitoring supply chains for the transport of humanitarian goods, including COVID-19 pandemic-related disruptions.
The Global Logistics Cluster is part of a humanitarian cluster system and provides coordination, information management and shares assets through the facilitation of access to common logistics services, including for humanitarian organizations working to deliver relief supplies to the front lines of the pandemic as quickly as possible, the German logistics giant explained.
“Disruptions to supply chains caused by COVID-19 have made this process a more complicated, but all the more essential task. Therefore, DPDHL, in collaboration with R360, is supporting the Logistics Cluster in monitoring supply chains for the transport of humanitarian and health cargo,” it added.
Commenting on the co-operation, Deputy Global Logistics Cluster co-ordinator Bruno Vandemeulebroecke noted: “The Global Logistics Cluster aims to avoid duplication of efforts and ensure the optimal use of resources for all humanitarian organizations. This support from DHL will facilitate sharing of time-critical information with humanitarian organizations, showing them where certain incidents occur and allowing them to adapt accordingly.”
With the information from the cloud-based Software as a Service platform R360, the Logistics Cluster is able to visualize humanitarian supply chains. This enables them to determine what risks a supply chain may be impacted by, so that contingency plans can be put in place, if necessary, DP DHL underlined.
R360 also recently launched a specific COVID-19 Intelligence Center to give an overview of air, sea and land border traffic restrictions, as well as lockdown measures implemented worldwide. This provides both humanitarian organizations and companies with real-time intelligence to adapt to the impact of the coronavirus crisis on supply chains and get vital aid to where it is needed.
Source: Lloyd’s
