The increasing number of natural disasters in the last decade necessitates the increase in capacity and agility while delivering humanitarian relief. A common logistics strategy used by humanitarian organizations to respond this need is the establishment of pre-positioning warehouse networks. In the pre-positioning strategy, critical relief inventories are located near the regions at which they...

Although the importance of locating in manufacturing and service companies is not a new issue, one of significance applications is to determine the appropriate location for warehouses in manufacturing workshops warehouses to the maintenance of materials or products. In any organizations, Finding the suitable site for warehouses establishments to increase customer service and efficiency is one o...

Relief supply warehouses are material built to cope with natural disasters and guarantee the of life necessities. Great earthquakes (with Ms ≥ 7) overwhelming beyond human control. The efficiency in rescuing earthquake victims depends on if construction preparations large relief have fully assessed influence weights factors disasters. We innovatively proposes a method for selecting ideal site t...

Natural and technology-induced disasters have posed significant threats to human life all around the world caused many damages losses so far. The current study addresses a location-routing problem make an efficient timely distribution plan in response possible earthquake. This considers uncertainty such parameters as demand, access routes, travel time, number of available vehicles. To deal with...

The purpose of this paper is to review recent developments to use RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) for supply chain logistics in the construction industry and identify potential applications of this technology for disaster recovery in construction operations. Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and extreme weather conditions can cause significant damage to local communities and disruptio...

determination of shipment quantity and distribution problem is an important subject in today’s business. this paper describes the inventory/distribution network design. the system addresses a class of distribution network design problem, which is characterized by multiple products family, multiple warehouses and retail-ers. the maximum capacity of vehicles and warehouses are also known. the res...

Crises and natural disasters are always existed in human history, and continue to exist in the future; therefore, people are always affected by these natural disasters. Hence, evacuation planning after natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, fire, storms, warfare and nuclear explosions) is vital. Given that natural disasters cause irreparable financial loss and the loss of life ...