CHSCM 3.0 - Unit 1 - SCM in the Humanitarian World

Objective: Initiate project closure activities, ensuring adherence to compliance procedures and
contribution of knowledge gained to long-term institutional knowledge.
Major Activities:
Reporting &
Documentation
Lessons Learned
Implications for Supply Chain:
• Compile and file all relevant reports, history, and
documentation for the project to provide an effective audit
trail, for possible future need.
• Document operational lessons learned.
Planning is a decision-making process that involves making choices about what to do, and then how
to do it. Supporting an organization’s purpose is usually a mandate and policies that define what
can be done and in what ways. Planning is the tool that enables the mandate and policies to be
applied in a way that ensures actions are taken that allow the organization to provide solutions in
specific situations.
Often, particularly in emergency situations, there will be a high expectation for action. Action that is
undertaken without planning often leads to longer response times. The overall response time
consists of planning and action times. By spending time on planning we can often make the action
more effective and timely. Good planning will lead to better results, delivered on time, with the
consequence that human suffering is relieved in a more cost effective way.
Seen in this way, planning becomes a deliberate act requiring that the current situation is analyzed
and assessed, policies are interpreted, and solutions designed to fulfill the desired objectives. By
undertaking planning we are attempting to influence the future in a manner that transforms the