Supply chain disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic: Recognizing potential disruption management strategies

J Moosavi, AM Fathollahi-Fard… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has made a significant impact on various supply chains (SCs). All
around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic affects different dimensions of SCs, including but …

Role of drone technology helping in alleviating the COVID-19 pandemic

SAH Mohsan, QA Zahra, MA Khan, MH Alsharif… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by a new coronavirus, has affected economic and social
standards as governments and healthcare regulatory agencies throughout the world …

Designing a vaccine supply chain network considering environmental aspects

S Abbasi, S Zahmatkesh, A Bokhari… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the fight against SARS-COV-2, the vaccine has become a ubiquitous preventive measure.
Vaccination programs for COVID-19 are inadvertently creating large amounts of bio-medical …

Drone usage for medicine and vaccine delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic: attitude of health care workers in rural medical centres

R Sham, CS Siau, S Tan, DC Kiu, H Sabhi, HZ Thew… - Drones, 2022 - mdpi.com
Rural areas are often difficult to access reliably with medicine and vaccines. This study
aimed to examine rural health care workers' attitude towards drone delivery for medicine …

Multi-objective optimization of two-echelon vehicle routing problem: Vaccines distribution as a case study

N Al Theeb, M Abu-Aleqa, A Diabat - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
During pandemics, the efficiency of the vaccine supply chain may be compromised,
especially the last-mile distribution, due to poor infrastructure that is unable to support the …

Optimizing the COVID-19 cold chain vaccine distribution network with medical waste management: A robust optimization approach

EE Işık, ST Yildiz - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the distribution problem of the COVID-19 vaccine at the provincial
level in Turkey and the management of medical waste, considering the cold chain …

An optimization framework for COVID-19 vaccine allocation and inventory management: A case study

JN Kohneh, M Amirdadi, E Teimoury - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
As the novel coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc globally, governments have
implemented massive vaccination programs to tackle it. However, since the pandemic's …

A mathematical model for equitable in-country COVID-19 vaccine allocation

B Balcik, E Yucesoy, B Akca, S Karakaya… - … Journal of Production …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Given the scarcity of COVID-19 vaccines, equitable (fair) allocation of limited vaccines
across the main administrative units of a country (eg municipalities) has been an important …

[HTML][HTML] Is COVID-19 vaccine inequality undermining the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic?

A Suárez-Álvarez, AJ López-Menéndez - Journal of global health, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background The devastating health and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic led to
a global response in the development of effective vaccines to fight the disease in an …

Optimal distribution and waste management of COVID-19 vaccines from vaccination centers' satisfaction perspective–A fuzzy time window-based VRP

A Maleki, V Hemmati, SR Abazari, A Aghsami… - … Research Part E …, 2024 - Elsevier
Due to the unforeseen outcomes of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the adoption of
essential policies and tactics to implement public vaccination programs has gained attention …