Decision making in humanitarian logistics - A multi-objective optimization model for relocating relief goods during disaster recovery operations

ABSTRACT Disaster recovery operations rarely proceed smoothly and disruptions often require the redistribution of relief items. Such a redistribution has to be carried out taking into account both the current disruption and the uncertainty regarding possible future incidents in the respective area. As decisions have to be made fast in humanitarian operations, extensive optimization runs cannot be conducted in such a situation. Nevertheless, sensible decisions should be made to ensure an efficient redistribution, considering not only satisfaction of needs but also operational costs, as the budget is usually scarce in the recovery phase of a disaster. In this work, different scenarios are generated and then solved with a multiobjective optimization model to explore possible developments. By evaluating the results of these scenarios, decision rules are identified which can support the decision maker in the actual disaster situation in making fast, but nevertheless well-founded, decisions

Assessing Requirements for Decision Support Systems in Humanitarian Operations

Efficient and effective decision making in the chaotic environment of humanitarian relief distribution (HRD) is a challenging task. Decision makers, in such situations, are required to concentrate on numerous attributes classified by three decision factors: objectives, variables, and constraints. Recent HRD literature mainly focuses on optimizing procedures while neglecting the quantification of influential requirements (factors) for information systems to provide decision-making support. This article addresses this gap by accumulating those affecting attributes from the literature. It investigates their practical implications in HRD by measuring the preferences of a Delphi panel of 23 experts. The results quantify the importance of each attribute – along with the newly added ones by the experts – in the proposed process model for HRD in a large-scale sudden onset. Our work provides future researchers not only with a comprehensive set of practically feasible decision-making factors in HRD but also with an understanding of their influences or correlations

Making decisions for effective humanitarian actions: a conceptual framework for relief distribution

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Logística humanitária : uma revisão bibliográfica

Orientador : Prof. Dr. Guilherme F. FredericoMonografia (especialização) - Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curso de MBA em Gerência de Sistemas LogísticosInclui referênciasResumo : A logística humanitária é um tema que vem ganhando destaque entre as publicações acadêmicas visto o crescente número de desastres ocorrendo ao redor do mundo. Ela difere em diversos aspectos da logística comercial, principalmente porque lida não apenas com transações de produtos e serviços, mas também com o impacto no ser humano. Da mesma forma, diversos outros fatores devem ser considerados, como a instabilidade e riscos variáveis. Este trabalho irá expor uma seleção de trabalhos acadêmicos voltados ao assunto que apresentam um problema específico na rede logística em relação a ocorrência de desastres. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar, através de critérios selecionados, as tendências acadêmicas, bem como verificar necessidades e apontar direcionamentos para novos estudos

Aproximación al Estado de Investigación en Logística Humanitaria: Un enfoque Bibliométrico

El presente proyecto, pretende el desarrollo de un estudio bibliométrico que permita identificar las bases conceptuales y las contribuciones relevantes en una de las áreas emergentes de la logística: La logística humanitaria. El proyecto seleccionará las principales publicaciones disponibles en Academic Search Complete, Emerald, Science Direct, y en las herramientas bibliográficas Scopus e ISI Web of Science con el acceso que ofrece la licencia de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, para posteriormente, aplicar los principios de la bibliometría identificando las principales tendencias de investigación en el objeto de estudio seleccionado, utilizando indicadores y herramientas estadísticas descriptivas y mediciones de co-citación, detallando el contenido conceptual de cada artículo y estableciendo el estado de obsolescencia de la literatura disponible. Por último, la presente investigación realizará una discusión de los hallazgos de revisiones bibliográficas previas, frente a los resultados obtenidos en el desarrollo del presente estudio, de manera que se puedan identificar futuras líneas de investigación, orientadas hacia el desarrollo conceptual y solución de los retos que impone en la actualidad la logística humanitariaAbstract : The aim of this project is to develop a bibliometrics study that will be able to identify the conceptual bases and main contribution in one of the emerging areas of research in logistics known as Humanitarian logistics. This research paper will select the main publications in the databases available: Academic Search Complete, Emerald and Science Direct and other bibliographic tools as Scopus and ISI web of Science, by using the available access for the members of the National University of Colombia. Then applying the bibliometric principles, in order to bring out the main research trends of Humanitarian Logistics, using indicators and descriptive statistics tools and co-citation measurements, detailing the conceptual content of each publication and establishing the obsolescence level of the available literature. Finally, this research will propose a discussion regarding the findings of previous bibliographic reviews, compared to the results of the present study, in that manner that might help identify future research lines. These lines should be directed to the conceptual development and solution of the challenges that nowadays the humanitarian logistics facesMaestrí