In today’s logistics market, small and mediumsized logistics companies are exposed to increasing cooperation pressure to use rationalization potentials, win new groups of customers and assert themselves in the competition with big logistics companies yielding a distinct market power. In the past, numerous SME-size logistics companies have joined to form regional logistics associations in order ...

AIM To describe the stages of development and implementation of an automated external defibrillator (AED) program within the Emergency Medical Service System and in public places in Portugal. METHODS Description of the implementation process in terms of logistics, training and supervision of activity. RESULTS By the end of 2012 there were 442 emergency ambulances equipped with AEDs included...

Various disasters with serious results are reported and happen around our lives. Most of them are unconventional contingency events. Emergency relief is an important activity dealing with the disasters to transfer a large number of materials to the destroyed places for casualties and reconstruction for the country, even the world. Container multimodal transportation will play an important role ...

The aim of the study was to identify key elements of successful care process of patients with heart symptoms from the nursing management viewpoint in an emergency care. Through these descriptions, we aimed at identifying possibilities for using enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to support decision making in emergency care. Hospitals are increasingly moving to process-based workings and...

Many hospitals in the Netherlands are confronted with capacity problems at their Intensive Care Units (ICUs) resulting in cancelling operations, overloading the staff with extra patients, or rejecting emergency patients. In practice, the last option is a common choice because juridically, as well as for hospital logistics, rejecting emergency patients has minimal consequences for the hospital. ...

With development of technology and science and continuous increase in productivity, product life cycles are shortened and customer demands are more personalized and diversified, which makes companies face with ever changing and unpredictable competitive environment. Therefore, rapid response to market competition has become one of the main focuses and the competitive advantages. Today, one of t...

This paper presents a framework for food emergency response and demonstrates the use of Geographical Information Systems as a solution to planning for and managing food emergencies. This is particularly critical in countries such Kenya where there is no unified communication framework to facilitate the management of food emergencies. The research contextualized the WHO/FAO Multiagency Coordinat...