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Supply Chain Management in

Challenging Regions

The mandate for the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is to support the LOGISTICS
Government of the Republic of South Sudan in peace consolidation and thereby foster
long-term state-building and economic development. CDGA Consultants (based in
Cork) provides advisory support and training to UNMISS staff in the area of logistics,
supply chain management (SCM), transport technology and other managerial fields.

Personnel transport helicopter with UNMISS

Pat Moriarty B.E., C.Eng., CMILT is a director of CDGA. He has major ethnic groups, and the majority of its people follow
extensive experience of working with clients, both industrial and traditional religions. Independence did not bring conflict in
international organisations in Africa, Middle East and Asia. In South Sudan to an end. The 2013-2015 civil war displaced 2.2
this article, Pat outlines the SCM challenges faced in central million people and threatened the success of one of the
Africa. world's newest countries.
The population is estimated at approximately 12 million and
its land area is almost eight times that of Ireland.

More than 14,000 UNMISS personnel, including police,
military and civilians from at least 60 different countries,
including locals, work to deter violence against civilians by
providing a safe and secure environment for South Sudanese
people. UNMISS personnel also work to facilitate the safe
delivery of humanitarian assistance, such as food, clean
water, shelter and healthcare, to the millions of displaced
people. Almost all food, humanitarian and medical supplies
are procured from international suppliers. Including the
Pat Moriarty support to ground operations
contingents, there are over 1,000 vehicles in the UNMISS fleet
and significant numbers of passenger and cargo aircraft.
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011 as
the outcome of a 2005 agreement that ended Africa's Effective SCM faces many challenges in the UNMISS theatre.
longest-running civil war. South Sudan is one of the most These range from poor infrastructure to security and long
diverse countries in Africa. It is home to over 60 different lead times. Typically, inbound inventory is sourced from

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