UN’s World Food Programme wins logistics award for AI tool
· Source: dcvelocity.com
In short
The United Nations World Food Programme has won the 2026 Lynn C. Fritz Medal for Excellence in Humanitarian Logistics, the first time the medal goes to a UN organization. The award recognizes Scout, an AI-enabled supply chain planning tool that optimizes what food commodities to procure, where to source them, and where to position them. Deployed since 2022, Scout has generated more than $6.5 million in cumulative savings within 24 months and is being scaled up.
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