Logistics Support System (LSS) is a tool created by the

Pan American Health Organization The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency working to improve the health and living standards of the people of the Americas. It is part of the United Nations system, serving as the Regional Office for ...

and six

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...

agencies for the purpose of facilitating the communication among

humanitarian Humanitarianism is an active belief in the value of human life, whereby humans practice benevolent treatment and provide assistance to other humans to reduce suffering and improve the conditions of humanity for moral, altruistic, and emotional ...

agencies, non-governmental organizations, donors, media or countries and enhancing the coordination of humanitarian supply chain. By creating matching tables to collect information from other tracking systems or by having access to already existing data in the systems' database, logistics support systems have the ability to provide decision supporting reports that show which relief supplies were received or delivered, where they have been stored, which relief supplies are requested and how useful they are at a specific moment. Sorting and classifying incoming supplies are also some functions of a logistics support system. Consequently, the function of the logistics support system enhances the proactivity of a humanitarian organization by improving problem traceability and performance monitoring and providing the advantage to timely change the plan of the supply chain without consequences. Two modules of the logistics support system have been created: a module that operates under Windows systems and a second module that operates under a web browser. The Logistics Support System has been used in many

natural disasters A natural disaster is "the negative impact following an actual occurrence of natural hazard in the event that it significantly harms a community". A natural disaster can cause loss of life or damage property, and typically leaves some econo ...

, including Pakistan earthquake in October 2005 and Bolivian floods in February 2006. This is being used in response to the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile 2010.Logistics Support System (LSS) for the International Humanitarian Relief Logistics for the Pan American Health Organization and Six UN Agencies
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* * * *{{cite web, url=http://ochaonline.un.org/AboutOCHA/Organigramme/EmergencyServicesBranchESB/LogisticsSupportUnitLSU/LogisticsSupportSystem/tabid/1434/Default.aspx , title=The Logistics Support System (LSS) , accessdate=2008-06-02 , work=OCHA , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126075322/http://ochaonline.un.org/AboutOCHA/Organigramme/EmergencyServicesBranchESB/LogisticsSupportUnitLSU/LogisticsSupportSystem/tabid/1434/Default.aspx , archivedate=January 26, 2009 Logistics