“In every crisis, I anchor my decisions on a single test: does this action save lives, reduce suffering, and meet the real needs of affected people” HumanityHuman RightsHumanitarianHumanity QuotesHumanitarian CrisisHumanitarian AidEmergency ResponseEmergency Food ProgramsHumaniatrianHumanitarian Response Author:Victor Manan Nyambala
“Humanitarian Logistics is about mobilization and movement of resources for disaster preparedness, disaster response and disaster recovery” InspirationalInspirational AttitudeMentorHumanitarianismMentorshipLogistics Author:Victor Manan Nyambala
“A house is just a house for its structure and matter but when you add to this a warm caring family the house transforms into a home.” HomeFamily Author:Victor Manan Nyambala
“Your supply chain strategy should have a diversity, equity and inclusion component that intentionally caters for ‘supply chain staffing’, ‘supply chain vendors’ and ‘benefactors of your supply chain network’. This leverages the creative gusto of a diverse workforce, unlocks innovation from a rich supplier base and ensures solutions are inclusive and sensitive to the needs of diverse supply chain benefactors.” DiversityInclusionEquityDiversity And InclusionLogisticsSupply ChainEquity And InclusionProcurement Author:Victor Manan Nyambala
“Our thoughts beyond what we can imagine can torment us to our end, therefore we must take time to relax, reflect, and re-energize in a way that caters to our mental health and emotional well being” HealthThoughtsMental HealthWell BeingRelaxationRestEnergy HealingSuicide Thoughts Author:Victor Manan Nyambala
“One lesson from the occurrence of crises in the last century is that they are here to stay. The other aspect brought to light by the novel corona virus 2019 (COVID-19) is that personal or organizational experience cannot be a form of inoculation from future events that may present more crises.” ChangeFutureExperienceCrisisCovid 19Experience QuotesCrisis ManagementInoculationCrisis And Attitude Author:Victor Manan Nyambala
“Humanitarian fleet professionals are the most crucial life savers charged with the responsibility of moving life saving people with life saving products to people whose lives need to be saved.” HumanitarianHumanitarian EffortsLogisticsFleetHumanitarian LogisticsFleet ManagementHumanitarian FleetHumanitarian Supply Chain Author:Victor Manan Nyambala
“In procurement for humanitarian assistance, optimization is achieved when goods and services offering value for money are purchased and delivered within good time to aid people in need at quantity volumes which ensure economies of scale at prices that maximize reach to beneficiaries.” LogisticsHumanitarian AidAidProcurementPurchasing GreatnessLogistics StrategyEmergency ResponseLogistics Coordination Author:Victor Manan Nyambala
“Organizational Procurement is a tight balancing act between “cost and quality” on one side and “time and compliance” on the other side, yet a seasoned procurement specialist keeps it evenly balanced.” EfficiencyPurchasingLogisticsProcurementProfit MaximizationOrganizational EffectivenessProcurement Manager Author:Victor Manan Nyambala
“Humanitarian procurement for emergency response is spontaneous and often unplanned, because although we may plan for a catastrophe the when it may happen maybe a mystery! To address this, innovative solutions must include putting in place long term agreements (framework agreements), contracts for vendor consigned stocks, pre-positioning of stocks which would predictably be used for a broad range of responses and a cash based intervention option to allow people affected to have their dignity of choice.” CatastropheLogisticsEmergencyDisaster PreparednessProcurementDisaster QuotesEmergency ResponseHumanitarian LogisticsHumanitarian Procurement Author:Victor Manan Nyambala
“Buying a product or a service is not procurement, that is purchasing. “Procurement” is more multifaceted! “Procurement” will assess needs, define requirements, comb the market and onboard vendors against set criteria. “Procurement” solicits for proposals in formal fashion and allows for a fair competitive ethical environment. “Procurement” contracts based on value for money and maintains full accountability and transparency. To deliver goods and services in the right quality from the right source, at the right price to the right destination at the right time in the quantity and in the right way is not purchasing. All that requires a broad range of strategies, which in one word means “procurement”!” ManagementStrategyBuyingEffectivenessPurchasingProcurementPurchasing GreatnessLogistics StrategySourcing Author:Victor Manan Nyambala
“Buying a product or a service is not procurement, that is purchasing. “Procurement” is more multifaceted! “Procurement” will assess needs, define requirements, comb the market and onboard vendors against set criteria. “Procurement” solicits for proposals in formal fashion and allows for a fair, competitive, and ethical environment. “Procurement” contracts based on value for money and maintains full accountability and transparency. To deliver goods and services in the right quality, from the right source, at the right price, to the right destination, at the right time, in the right quantity, and in the right way is not purchasing. The portfolio of strategies required to deliver value for money can be summed up in one word “procurement”!” StrategyBuyingEffectivenessPurchasingLogisticsProcurementPurchasing GreatnessLogistics StrategySourcing Author:Victor Manan Nyambala