نتایج جستجو برای: Relief Logistics

تعداد نتایج: 51527  

Relief logistics is one of the most effective tools in the crisis management. Growing number of global disasters and crisis events in Iran in the last decade indicates the importance of relief logistics planning more than before. Facility location of the resources allocation is the basic instrument in relief logistics before, in, and after each crisis. In this paper, covering radius of faciliti...

In humanitarian relief operations (HRO), due to the excessive number of relief organizations, multiple organizational coordination is a demanding and complicated task. Considering such a problem, this paper proposes a two-phase mechanism to coordinate multiple heterogeneous relief organizations in a decentralized HRO logistics network. To address such a problem, first a bi-level mixed integer l...

  Disaster relief logistics is one of the major activities in disaster management. The significance of accounting for uncertainty in such context stimulates an interest to develop appropriate decision making tools to cope with uncertain and imprecise parameters in relief logistics system design problems. This paper proposes a multi-objective possibilistic non-linear programming model (MOPNLP) t...

2013
MUSTAFA ALP ERTEM NEBIL BUYURGAN

This chapter focuses on an auction-based procurement framework for single coordinating platforms in humanitarian logistics. It first covers disaster relief operations, humanitarian logistics, and procurement in this context and illustrate many of the issues that make the management and coordination of procurement functions complex and challenging. Then the proposed framework along with the auct...

2011
Luis E. de la Torre Irina S. Dolinskaya Karen R. Smilowitz

Disaster relief presents many unique logistics challenges, with problems including damaged transportation infrastructure, limited communication, and coordination of multiple agents. Central to disaster relief logistics is the distribution of life-saving commodities to beneficiaries. Operations research models have potential to help relief agencies save lives and money, maintain standards of hum...

2011
Irina S. Dolinskaya Zhenyu Shi Karen R. Smilowitz Michael Ross Irina Dolinskaya Karen Smilowitz

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) involved in humanitarian relief provide supplies and services to people in need. Transportation and logistics are big parts of NGO operations, as agencies transport and distribute supplies to and within the affected regions. Improving efficiency of their logistics systems has potential to significantly decrease agencies’ operational costs and expand their se...

2014
Henning Gösling Jutta Geldermann

Disasters trigger the need for relief items. The flows of relief items to the beneficiaries in the disaster area are determined by humanitarian logistics networks. The setup and operations of such networks can be supported by employing Operations Research models. Several models, based on different methodologies are available to support decision-making in the field of humanitarian logistics. Thi...

2008
Benita M. Beamon Burcu Balcik

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare performance measurement in the humanitarian relief chain with performance measurement in the commercial supply chain, develop performance metrics for the humanitarian relief chain, and present a framework that can be used as a basis for a performance measurement system in the relief sector. Design/methodology/approach – The performance measureme...

Journal: :Uncertain Supply Chain Management 2014

Ardavan Babaei, Kamran Shahanaghi

The life of many people in the world is under the danger because of the accidents and unpredicted diseases, which require relief. Since, most of such cases occur in unpredictable condition, for an appropriate planning, the uncertain conditions should be investigated. Consequently, this paper investigates the integrated and multi-step process of locating, assigning and routing the air and la...

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