Management of supply chain inventory system of humanitarian relief organizations during the diseasters and an application at the Turkish Red Crescent

Diseaster is a situation or event which overwhelms local capacity, necessitating a request to national or international level for external assistance. It is an unforeseen and often sudden event that causes great damage, destruction and human suffering. To increase quick response capability and the effectiveness of humanitary relief supply chain activites, a humanitarian relief organization needs carefully planning and strong relations with its suppliers.In this study, to improve Turkish Red Crescent?s inventory management capability for the operational performance,.a new model is proposed by applying SCOR model approach. This proposed model consists of new organizational structure for improving efficiency, new performance indicators and balanced SCORcard to measure the system?s overall performance, applicible solutions to achieve the quick and easy successes, simplified and well described material and work flows and centralized information system.