Award-Winning Compassion
ALAN was pleased to present its 2019 Humanitarian Logistics Awards to four highly deserving recipients at CSCMP’s annual conference on September 17.
Created in 2017, these awards honor individuals and organizations that have demonstrated an ongoing and sustained commitment to helping others in their time of greatest need.
Please join us in congratulating each of this year’s winners – and in celebrating their extraordinary generosity. And if you know of a particularly deserving recipient for next year’s awards, please consider nominating them when nominations open in summer 2020.
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Phil Palin – Lifetime Achievement Award
A noted author and supply chain resilience expert, Palin has spent many years helping government and business develop greater alignment when providing disaster relief. Over the years Phil has worked closely with numerous federal, state, local and private sector leaders to prepare for and respond to a variety of complex, wide-area catastrophic events. And this year, he has served as the FEMA team leader for the supply chain Ecosystem Assessment. He has also authored many books and articles about supply chain resilience, including Out of the Whirlwind: Supply and Demand after Hurricane Maria.
Disaster Relief By Amazon – Outstanding Contribution Award
For leveraging Amazon’s extensive services, operations and technology to help advance the cause of disaster relief. To date, these efforts have resulted in more than $15 million in product and cash donations and helped provide relief for 25 disasters around the world.
Total Quality Logistics – Outstanding Contribution Award
For Moves that Matter, a program that provides funding to help non-profits and businesses defray the cost of humanitarian shipments – and for TQL Cares, an in-house initiative that raises millions of dollars and contributes thousands of volunteer hours to compassionate causes each year.
Dr. Nezih Altay – Research And Academic Contributions Award
For being one of the first U.S academics to recognize the importance of applying operations research and supply chain management to the challenge of disaster relief. His 2006 paper, OR/MS Research in Disaster Operations Management, was one of the first papers to spark research in humanitarian logistics, and remains the most cited article in its field.