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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In view of the ever-increasing humanitarian needs and the growing funding gap (Figure 1), actors in the humanitarian space are asked to look into different and new ways of operating to ultimately achieve more with less.
Recent studies carried out by HELP Logistics and the Kuehne Logistics University have analysed the expenditures of 5 organisations in 23 emergency operations of different kinds between 2005 and 2018. The studies revealed that an average of 73% of the total expenditure was spent in the supply chain (Figure 2). It follows that efficiencies must be found here if the humanitarian community is to effectively meet the increasing needs with the available resources. A number of organisations such as Action Contre la Faim (ACF) France, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Save the Children International (SCI) picked up on those findings and launched a second series of studies to identify potential triggers for cost and time savings in the supply chain.