Sole Mission: How Samaritan’s Feet donates millions of shoes to needy children globally?

MUMBAI, INDIA: With more than 2.2 billion people living in poverty and with little or no access to healthcare, education and basic clothing, non-profit organization Samaritan’s Feet International donates and distributes shoes to children across the globe, as a part of its Sole Mission project.

As an organization that receives shoe donations numbering in the tens of thousands each day, Samaritan's Feet decided to rope in JDA Software to gain critical supply chain visibility to meet its sole mission; to track and efficiently and accurately deliver shoes to the needy across the globe for its Sole Mission project.

Logistics:
The NGO is leveraging a range of JDA solutions and services including inventory management, RFID asset tracking and warehouse management solutions.

The solutions have helped Samaritan’s Feet to not only optimize costs, but also efficiently track the movement and delivery of shoes that have been donated. Besides, it also helps the NGO to keep a tab on the shoe inventory across it warehouses.

CSR:
“More than 1.5 billion people are infected with diseases that are transmitted through contaminated soil and this heart breaking fact drives us to give children the shoes and socks that will protect their feet and meet their basic, physical needs,” said Emmanuel Manny Ohonme, Founder and President, Samaritan’s Feet.

“We are grateful to work with many organizations that donate thousands and sometimes millions of shoes to us to distribute to children, many of which are JDA customers. Their generosity requires a robust solution for managing our inventory and tracking shoes globally, and JDA has closely partnered with us to make this a reality.”

“With 6.5 million shoes donated across 75 countries, Samaritan’s Feet is making an incredible impact into the lives of children all over the world,” said Bal Dail, JDA Chairman and CEO.