At the sharing economy era, the online food reservation market has experienced great changes, such as the mobilization of ordering,cooperation of logistics , diversification of revenue stream. The ordering patterns has also changed from network order to improve user experience. At present, online food reservation market has difficulties inquickly dealing with the impacts and challenges bought b...

Manufacturing is a major driving force and an important pillar for national economic development .It is an important source to create national income. Currently the low level of logistics industry development significantly restricted prosperity and development of manufacturing, and affected the overall competitiveness of the supply chain. The paper firstly explains the relevant research about i...

Last mile distribution is the final stage of a humanitarian relief chain; it refers to delivery of relief supplies from local distribution centers (LDCs) to beneficiaries affected by disasters. In this study, we consider a vehicle-based last mile distribution system, in which an LDC stores and distributes emergency relief supplies to a number of demand locations. The main decisions are allocati...

Open data and data sharing are essential for maximizing the benefits that can be obtained from institutional and research datasets [1]. In 2012, the medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) decided to adopt a data sharing policy for routinely collected clinical and research data (http://www. msf.org.uk/msf-data-sharing). Here we describe the policy’s principles, practica...

Purpose: Various information technologies have been designed to assist with the resource management of distribution centres in a typical supply chain. But the humanitarian distribution centre has its own characteristics including hybrid freight types (food, medicine and general living goods, as well as a need to track rescue equipment, vehicles and on-site staff), destabilized operating circums...

Humanitarian supply chains play a major role in enabling disaster-affected areas to recover timely manner and enable economic social activities be restored. However, the sudden onset increasing frequency of natural disasters such as flash floods require humanitarian resilient during relief process. In this study, evaluation indicators were identified from literature Delphi method, weights calcu...

Since the end of the Cold War, states have increasingly come under pressure to intervene militarily and, in fact, have intervened militarily to protect citizens other than their own from humanitarian disasters. Recent efforts to enforce protected areas for Kurds and no-fly zones over Shiites in Iraq, efforts to alleviate starvation and establish some kind of political order in Somalia, the huge...