Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks

Session title: How to plug-and-play your supply processes for better responsiveness, coordination, and flexibility.

26 Apr 23 09:00-10:30 UTC+2 (Salle 2)

SessionAbstract

This interactive session aims at discussing in a 1h30 round-table the challenges faced by humanitarian organizations when adapting their logistics processes to different situation.

This session will be structured in three parts:
- Exchange on the challenges of having to adapt your supply chain processes to fast-changing environments.
- Presentation on what enables plug-and-play for humanitarian supply chain processes and how can it be used.
- Advantages and tradeoffs of increasing the level of plug-and-play across your supply chain processes.

Agenda

9h-9h30 Roundtable on plug-and-play challenges across participants organization

- Do you already use some component switch or plug-and-play for your supply chain processes? How do you use it? What is the added value?

- If no what are the challenges? Why not?

9h30-10h00: Process modularity in Humanitarian Supply Chain presentation

- What is process modularity? What does it look like in practice?

- How does process modularity works?

- Why does it support responsiveness?

10h -10h30: Workshop way forward and increasing your level of modularization

- Do you see this as a quick win?

- Group discussion to exchange best practices and tips to increase plug-and-play aka supply chain process modularity