Interactive lectures, panel discussions, group work, board games
December 1st - 4th, 2025, 09.00 a.m. - 05.00 p.m.
Directors & Managers of organizations operating in the humanitarian space
English
KLU Campus, Hamburg, Germany
No course fees thanks to generous support from HELP Logistics
About the program
Tap into the potential of supply chain management for organizational and operational success. - Funding cuts, geopolitics and climate change have created a “perfect storm” to put an already over-stretched humanitarian system under immense pressure. This executive program, developed in partnership with the Kühne Logistics University (KLU), aims to equip leaders and decision-makers with the competency and knowledge to untap the full potential of supply chain management and deliver more and better assistance with less resources. Participants will be challenged to think strategically and out of the box beyond functional, organizational and sectoral boundaries. Key learnings will include the value of supply chain management, leadership and change management skills as well as current trends and developments such as localization, digital solutions and interoperability approaches. The program is delivered by experts with commercial and humanitarian experience combined with the best academic knowledge this field has to offer.
The program consists out of four modules:
Module 1: Leadership and Change Management (Day 1)
- Leading organisations and supply chains in times of crises
- Enabling collaboration across silos and boundaries
- Motivating individuals to change and learn
Module 2: System Thinking and Supply Chain Advocacy (Day 2)
- Understanding complex system behaviour to break the vicious cycle of disasters, poverty and vulnerability
- Unlocking board room access by quantifying the value of supply chain management for operational success
- Benefiting from innovations, research trends and developments of modern supply chains
Module 3: Digital Solutions (Day 3)
- Managing heterogeneous data sources to support effective decision making
- Sharing data safely: From collaboration models to anonymization
- Leveraging automation and AI to free capacity and improve processes
Module 4: Supply Chain Interoperability (Day 4)
- Understanding barriers and enablers of shared services across organisations
- Advancing multi-sector engagement and collaborative action
Meet our professors

Professor of Humanitarian Logistics, Academic Director of the Center of Humanitarian Logistics and Regional Development (CHORD)
Kühne Logistics University - KLU

Professor of Supply Chain and Operations Strategy
Kühne Logistics University - KLU

Professor of Data Science and Business Intelligence & Head of Department of Operations and Technology
Kühne Logistics University - KLU
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