One of the challenges of humanitarian organizations is that there exist limited decision technologies that fit their needs. It has also been pointed out that those organizations experience coordination difficulties with volunteers willing to help. The purpose of this paper is to help address those challenges through the development of a decision model to assist in the management of volunteers. ...

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 study, we consider facility location decisions for a humanitarian relief chain responding to quick-onset disasters. In particular, we develop a model that determines the number and locations of distribution centres in a relief network and the amount of relief supplies to be stocked at each distribution centre to meet the needs of people affected by the disasters. Our model, which is a v...

This article investigates the impact of traceability quality information system on humanitarian logistics performance. There are four variables studied, namely electronic data interchange (EDI) adoption, blockchain (BC) radio frequency identification (RFID) logistics, and research was conducted to assess disaster services in implementation service principles logistics. The conceptual model is m...

Considering the port function’s importance, supply chain’s overall and individual revenues, uniqueness, a game model for two-stage chain composed of service providers enterprises was developed. Using revenue sharing contracts (RSCs) as coordination mechanism, equilibriums were investigated under two conditions: price-sensitive or price-insensitive logistics demand. The results suggested that RS...

The study assessed the key areas in humanitarian organizations to pave way effectiveness disaster relief operations. employed a sequential explanatory research design; this design was used purposely by converging quantitative and qualitative data with sample of 150 respondents from organizations. Questionnaires informant interviews were collect data. nature strength association between independ...

one effective method for improving the performance of supply chain is making coordination among members of supply chain. this paper studies the subject of coordination of supply chain by using an insurance contract. the supply chain consists of one-manufacturer and one-retailer that the retailer is faced with potential demand and returning of goods from customer. acceptance of goods returned is...