Executive Summary Daisytek International, Inc., is the largest wholesale distributor of non-paper consumable computer supplies and accessories in North America. This article focuses on the evolution of Daisytek’s distribution operations from a decentralized, ground-based system to a centralized, air-based system that features a strategic alliance with FedEx. Daisytek’s distribution strategy has...

OBJECTIVES This report presents data on the availability of pediatric services, expertise, and supplies for treating pediatric emergencies in U.S. hospitals. METHODS Data in this report are from the Emergency Pediatric Services and Equipment Supplement (EPSES), a self-administered questionnaire added to the 2006 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS). NHAMCS samples nonfede...

To respond effectively in the event of a public health emergency, careful analysis of preparedness plans is essential. This note describes a linear programming model of the Center for Disease Control Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) supply chain for distributing medical supplies under emergency conditions. The purpose of the model is to evaluate the effects that a specified collection of plan...

With the increasing prevalence of asthma in schools, as well as anaphylactic reactions to foods, insect stings, inhaled agents, and so on, combined with the increasing reliance on the school nurse for primary care, it is important to consider having oxygen as a part of a school’s emergency response. The NASN (2014a) position statement “Emergency Preparedness and Response in the School Setting—T...

The containment of the COVID-19 pandemic was significantly affected by unbalanced distribution emergency supplies, low coordinated transport efficiency, high costs, and inability nonprofit organizations to handle supplies efficiently. Based on experience, in this paper, we build a cloud platform for reduce asymmetry logistics information, improve efficiency distribution. Our proposed method use...

To realize the accurate reserve and timely supply of emergency materials, influenced by idea intelligent storage material linkage, considering complexity, uncertainty, dynamism disasters, because national demand for allocation living based on study "ordinary integration" collaborative adaptation mechanism a kind This is virtual that "complementary in times peace dominant emergency". With help b...

Abstract As an important link of emergency logistics, material distribution has been widely concerned and applied in the development today’s society. From consideration fairness efficiency distribution, there is a kind negative relationship between them. lever, information updating can be used to solve problems supplies. Based on fuzzy objective programming, classification decision model materi...

We consider a multi-stage disaster management problem with risk adjustments. The first-stage determines the quantities of emergency supplies to be pre-positioned at the known suppliers and the locations of transfer centers. These first-stage decisions are made before observing the random demands of the disaster victims for these supplies and the random road capacities. We assume that both deman...

We present a two-stage approach for the "helicopters and vehicles" intermodal transportation of medical supplies in large-scale disaster responses. In the first stage, a fuzzy-based method and its heuristic algorithm are developed to select the locations of temporary distribution centers (TDCs) and assign medial aid points (MAPs) to each TDC. In the second stage, an integer-programming model is...