Towards transformative resilience in humanitarian supply chains. Preparing to respond to crisis through platform solutions

As crisis become progressively more frequent and complex, better preparation to respond to them becomes more important. This contribution focuses on the investigation of the opportunities for supply chains to develop transformative resilience preparing to respond to crisis. In the most recent years, actors with superior logistics competences have become important players in the humanitarian field, in line with the crucial role of logistics in these complex and turbulent contexts. Logistics service providers offer supportive logistics services for different organizations and governments when they prepare to respond to major crises and disasters. Despite their crucial support, the academic literature on humanitarian logistics is still in developing when exploring the role that LSPs play in relief supply chains. So that, in particular, the purpose of this paper is to identify what is the role of LSPs in humanitarian logistics and supply chain management, supporting the development of transformative resilience of supply chains in response to crisis. The paper in based on literature review adopting a bibliometric approach, and from the analysis some insights and preliminary considerations emerges. The results could be interesting and useful for both academics and professionals and for both humanitarian and business sector. Going towards transformative resilience in humanitarian supply chains needs to focus on preparing actors and supply chains to respond to crisis, and LSPs may concretely support in this direction collaborating with humanitarian actors through platforms solutions.