FORMATNE ASSESSMENT $2$

Read the insert provided and answer ALL the questions.

In recent years, the World Food Programme $($WFP$)$ has managed complex emergencies, natural disasters, epidemics, and pandemics. Emergency preparedness and response is rooted within WFP policies and is crosscutting within all levels of the organization at country, regional, and global level. Emergencies are describus caffering or immine evidence that an event, or series of events, has occurred which causes remedy; and it is a demon livelihoods, and which the government concerned has not the means series of events, which produces dislocation in the life of a community on an exceptionar World Food Programme $($WFP$)$ has provided emergency food assistance, often in conflict, post$-$conflict or disaster situations. To this day, the organisation continues to assist millions of people displaced, rendered homeless or deprived of basic resources by cataclysmic events, whether man$-$made or natural, avoidable or not. Through decades of crises and countless interventions, it has developed a unique body of expertise in addressing emergencies. Sourcing food from close to $93$ countries, moving goods to more than $100$ and delivering cash assistance to over $60,$ in an average year the World Food Programme $($WFP$)\text{'}$s supply chain reaches more than $85$ million people in need. Given the complexities of running such a huge operation, good planning is essential to ensure that it can help even more people with the same resources and manage on$-$fime deliveries.

Source: World Food Programme $(2023)$

QUESTION $1$

$(100$ MARKS$)$

As one of the supply chain management consullants you have been invited by the Executive Director of WFP David Bearney

to their annual supply chain conference in Geneva entitled "Driving towards supply chain excellence during disaster relief

operations. You have been requested to make a series of presentations to the delegates addressing various issues relating

to supply chain excellencz as guided by the theme of the conference. Your presentations should respond to the problems