Relief operations and planning to implement them are essential due the unpredictability of natural disaster occurrences their concomitant damages. The Crisis Disaster Management Organization’s responsibility is execute plans, coordinate, control relief, rescue reduce impacts consequences these disasters. Thus, this organization should attend struck regions’ needs with maximum power as soon poss...

Governmental organizations play a major role in disaster relief operations. Supply chains set up to respond to disasters differ dramatically in many dimensions that affect the cost of relief efforts. One factor that has been described recently is self-sustainment, which occurs when supplies consumed by intermediate stages of a supply chain must be provided via the chain itself because they are ...

results responsiveness, effectiveness, and flexibility with eigenvalue of 2.628 were identified as the main aspects of agility in humanitarian health supply chains. the components of visibility, reactivity, and speed were identified as components of responsiveness. quality, reliability, and completeness were identified as components of effectiveness. volume, delivery, mix, and product were know...

As the number of natural disasters and their impacts increase across the globe, the need for effective preparedness against such events becomes more vital. In this paper, we construct a supply chain network optimization model for a disaster relief organization in charge of obtaining, storing, transporting, and distributing relief goods to certain disasterprone regions. Our system-optimization a...

Efficient supply chain management is crucial for survival and success in a turbulent world. Current economic crisis increases its importance even further. The paper reviews latest findings in the most relevant areas, namely the importance of a proper supply chain strategy that is a pre-condition for business process renovation and mitigation of supply chain connected risks. Performance measurem...

Models that aim to optimize the design of supply chain networks have gained more interest in the supply chain literature. Mixed-integer linear programming and discrete-event simulation are widely used for such an optimization problem. We present a hybrid approach to support decisions for supply chain network design using a combination of analytical and discrete-event simulation models. The prop...

Purpose Number of disastrous events are rising globally, and it is important to manage the humanitarian supply chain management process assist disaster affected individuals in terms relief operations. Effective operations can help recover materialistic loss due any disaster. But there a paucity studies regarding this issue for developing countries. This study, hence, inspected factors that affe...