with development of technology and science and continuous increase in productivity, product life cycles are shortened and customer demands are more personalized and diversified, which makes companies face with ever changing and unpredictable competitive environment. therefore, rapid response to market competition has become one of the main focuses and the competitive advantages. today, one of t...

In recent years mankind experienced several "megadisasters" such as hurricane Katrine and tsunami in Indian Ocean in 2004. They showed that conventional tiered response to disasters does not work well in this case. Megadisasters require application of new technologies including context-aware interoperability of participants, on-the-fly decision support assistance and other. The paper describes ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore barriers and benefits of establishing relationships between humanitarian organizations (HOs) and logistics service providers (LSPs) in order to improve humanitarian disaster relief operations (DROs). The perceptions of a variety of actors are explored to determine key factors which influence collaboration. Design/methodology/approach –This study...

In this paper, a new logistics model is proposed for delivery of prioritized items in disaster relief operations. It considers multi-items, multi-vehicles, multi-periods, soft time windows, and a split delivery strategy scenario, and is formulated as a multiobjective integer programming model. To effectively solve this model we need to limit the number of available tours. Two heuristic approach...

Aharon Ben-Tal Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, MINERVA Optimization Center, Technion Israel Institute of Technology Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel, [email protected] Byung Do Chung, Supreet Reddy Mandala, Tao Yao The Harold & Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 {[email protected],...

As disasters become progressively more frequent and complex, better collaboration through partnerships with private business becomes important. This research aimed to understand how platforms support the engagement of sector—especially logistics businesses—in humanitarian relief operations. The study was based on a literature review an investigation emblematic case cross-sector platform, recogn...