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...

Stock prepositioning is one of the most important issues in preparedness stage of emergency logistics response. In a previous research, a stock prepositioning model to support an emergency disaster relief response in the event of earthquake has been proposed. Since the results contained zero proportion of some type of item, which is not allowed in a real system, an improvement of the model is n...

The novel coronavirus pandemic is a major global public health emergency, and has presented new challenges requirements for the timely response operational stability of emergency logistics that were required to address events outbreak in China. Based on problems insufficient timeliness high total system cost distribution epidemic situations, this paper takes minimum vehicle travel cost, time ea...

Emergency logistics supply chains (ELSC) can help to restore normal activities in disaster-affected areas, thus helping increase the resilience of communities. In order develop resilient there needs be an analysis factors affecting vulnerability chains. this study, interlinkages between 15 found influence both within and outside ELSC were analysed through D- Decision Making Trial Evaluation Lab...

BACKGROUND On July 22, 2011, a single perpetrator killed 77 people in a car bomb attack and a shooting spree incident in Norway. This article describes the emergency medical service (EMS) response elicited by the two incidents. METHODS A retrospective and observational study was conducted based on data from the EMS systems involved and the public domain. The study was approved by the Data Pro...