The purpose of this work is to explore the international humanitarian relief organizations in Taiwan, and find most crucial performance indicators logistics, according experience opinion those large NGOs Taiwan. research gathered detailed information on situations from literature collected data by questionnaire. Based questionnaires, quantitative weight was calculated through participation expe...

Article history: Received November 4 2015 Received in Revised Format December 21 2015 Accepted February 25 2016 Available online February 25 2016 In this paper, a novel multi-objective robust possibilistic programming model is proposed, which simultaneously considers maximizing the distributive justice in relief distribution, minimizing the risk of relief distribution, and minimizing the total ...

The coordination problem of relief items’ distribution operations is essential in humanitarian relief chains. If the coordination is proper, it will improve the response phase to the crisis. In order to improve the coordination in humanitarian relief chains, distribution and warehousing operations of relief items were outsourced to the third-party logistics. In this paper, the procurement-distr...

The Haiti earthquake relief effort in 2010 involved numerous civil and military organizations engaged in vigorous relief operations, exemplifying rapid deployment of logistics, transport, security and medical supplies. Yet, to determine the effectiveness of these operations, and to understand how these various organizations collaborated, and eventually how to improve the future overall effectiv...

This paper builds on the idea that private sector logistics can and should be applied to improve the performance of disaster logistics but that before embarking on this the private sector needs to understand the core capabilities of humanitarian logistics. With this in mind, the paper walks us through the complexities of managing supply chains in humanitarian settings. It pinpoints the cross le...

Logistics in natural disasters or emergencies involve highly complicated optimization problems with diverse characteristics. The contribution of the present paper is twofold. First, it introduces a multi-period model aiming to minimize the shortages of different relief products in a number of affected areas. The relief products are transported via multiple modes of transportation from dispatch ...

The decision-making process on humanitarian logistics deals with variables related to the flow and quality of supplies, since the receipt of emergency relief items, its classification, stock, separation and delivery. Consequently, this decision-making process is crucial for seeking the best results in the allocation of scarce resources for storage and transportation in humanitarian operations, ...

Logistics planning in disaster response phase involves dispatching commodities such as medical materials, personnel, food, etc. to affected areas as soon as possible to accelerate the relief operations. Since transportation vehicles in disaster situations can be considered as scarce resources, thus, the efficient usage of them is substantially important. In this study, we provide a dynamic vehi...

abstractaccidents and natural disasters and crises coming out of them indicate the importance of an integrated planning to reduce their effected. therefore, disaster relief logistics is one of the main activities in disaster management. in this paper, we study the response phase of the disaster management cycle and a bi-objective model has been developed for relief chain logistic in uncertainty...