CHEP, the world’s leading provider of pallet and container pooling solutions, is supporting the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to perform an in-depth study of its global supply chain network to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
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Vicente Escribano, Head of UNHCR’s Supply Management Logistic Service, said: “The efficiency of our supply chain is often literally a matter of life and death to the refugees and families we serve, so any improvements we can make could have a massive impact”.
“We approached CHEP as a global supply chain leader to ask if they would evaluate if and how improvements could be made to improve our logistics and associated costs. Working with CHEP is a great opportunity for UNHCR and CHEP providing its resources and expertise on a voluntary basis is a real bonus.”
UNHCR – the UN Refugee Agency – was established in 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly to help Europeans displaced by World War Two. Today, the agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate activities worldwide to protect, and seek durable solutions for refugees.
UNHCR operates in 123 countries with a staff of more than 9,300, providing protection and assistance to more than 46 million refugees, returnees, internally displaced and stateless people. The budget has grown from US$300,000 in its first year to more than US$5 billion in 2014 . In 2014, UNHCR dealt with approximately 51.2 million people of concern: 33.3 million internally displaced people (IDPs) and 16.7 million refugees, plus another 10 million stateless people and more than 1.2 million asylum seekers.
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