About HELIOS
The HELIOS project consists of HELIOS software, a comprehensive supply chain technology solution, and the HELIOS Foundation for Supply Chain that that provides governance and services to support the project, together bringing order to disaster relief, helping humanitarian organizations provide aid to people quickly and more efficiently.
The HELIOS project was started as the result of urgent requests from leading international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for a "next generation" supply chain management software to enable them to effectively track the myriad of goods and donations entering and being disbursed across the communities affected by the December 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia. Many of these organizations currently employ manual, time-consuming processes and lack the infrastructure to support full-scale software implementations.
The HELIOS project aims to meet the needs of as many humanitarian organizations as possible so the coordination of the pipelines of supplies, information and financing from donation to delivery can be improved, thus enabling more of the right aid to reach the right people at the right time. HELIOS provides real-time access to supply chain information to enhance decision-making at every level throughout the aid delivery process. The end result is an improved return on donation and faster assistance to beneficiaries.
In 2008 HELIOS was implemented by World Vision International in two countries and piloted in two locations by Oxfam GB. Following these pilots, Oxfam GB invested in adding further modules to HELIOS in 2009 before starting a full roll-out in 2010. HELIOS is now used by Oxfam in countries including Pakistan, Indonesia, East Africa, and Haiti. Haiti was the first country to use multi-ligual forms, reports and item descriptions. There has also been a 5-agency project funded by DFID via the CBHA helping create business cases, improved understanding of benefits and also adding an inter-agency supply chain data sharing module.
HELIOS Foundation
HELIOS is a collaborative project: There is a HELIOS Support Website where documentation is being gathered, software releases are published and the user community can communicate via an issue tracker, forums, wikis and shared document spaces. In 2009 the HELIOS Foundation for Supply Chain was formed to provide long-term stability for HELIOS and the user group and to enable consortium fund-raising for further collaborative development to achieve our goal of make the engagement of organisations large and small as smooth and efficient as possible, and for the HELIOS software to continue to grow and improve with input from the whole user group.
See also
Contact us
- Email for info on HELIOS
- New users forum
Try HELIOS
- The foundation maintains various HELIOS instances for training, Acceptance Testing as well as demonstrations. At present their is a blank demo installation available at http://demo.helios-foundation.org/Helios - Select the org to be blank and the user and password are both testdrive This gives you an admin account. Note that the database is currently completely empty which is a bit limiting: We will have a populated database soon.
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