Prepositioning of assets and supplies prior to a disaster strike accelerates the response
activities as it reduces the supply chain burden associated with humanitarian relief items …

Quality management has been widely discussed in the literature, and recent special issues
on humanitarian supply chains and relief operations have emphasized the increasing …

The distribution of emergency aid from warehouses to relief centers to satisfy the needs of
the victims in the aftermath of a disaster is a complex problem because it requires a rapid …

Efficiency is a key success factor in complex supply chain networks. It is imperative to ensure
proper flow of goods and services in humanitarian supply chains in response to a disaster …

Pre-positioning of relief commodities in appropriate locations and quantities at a pre-disaster
phase assists a disaster relief logistics network in order to efficiently distribute the …

Emergency logistics is an essential component of post-disaster relief campaigns. However,
there are always various uncertainties when making decisions related to planning and …

Since the 1960s, there has been a five to ten-fold surge in natural disasters, leading to
escalating human and financial tolls. Humanitarian Logistics (HL) emerges as a response to …

We consider an integrated location–allocation and evacuation planning problem in a
disaster context, where the effects of a disaster, including the uncertain capacities of relief …

This paper uses stochastic optimisation techniques to allocate scarce national resource
across eight cities to best respond to three simultaneous disasters happening across these …

Humanitarian organizations (HOs) increasingly look to engage private sector supply chains
in achieving outcomes. The right engagement approach may require knowledge of agents' …