In preparing for disasters, relief supplies can be prepositioned as tangible forms in
warehouses or as intangible forms, such as production capacity. However, the …

Developing an efficient policy to determine the inventory a non-profit organization (NPO)
should stockpile to respond to potential disasters plays a vital role in humanitarian relief …

It is vital to pre-position a certain amount of relief supplies at pre-disaster. But governments
are often confronted with a dilemma of coordinating inventory cost and stock-out cost in pre …

The demand for relief supplies after sudden disasters strike is growing at an explosive rate.
Because of high uncertainty and time urgency, governments usually stockpile a certain …

The supply disruption of the critical raw material and the manufacturer's pre-disaster
insufficient relief supply reserves significantly affect the relief supply chain system. To solve …

This paper investigates how to strategically stock and procure disaster supplies to respond
to large-scale disasters under government-private framework agreements. We first consider …

Inventory pre-positioning is critical to quickly and efficiently responding to potential disasters.
This paper considers a NPO (a relief agent) that requires stockpiling multiple products for …

The distribution and redistribution of relief goods among people in need is an essential
operation in the post-disaster environment. This paper presents a mathematical model to …

Purpose There is usually a considerable shortage of resources and a lack of accurate data
about the demand amount in a post-disaster situation. This paper aims to model the …

In the aftermath of a disaster, the relief items are transported from temporary warehouses
(Staging Areas, SAs) to the Points of Distribution (PODs). Reducing the response time to …