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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Humanitarian logistics"”.
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Key performance indicators in humanitarian logistics
Non-profit humanitarian relief organizations have typically been unable to measure the performance of their supply chains due to an inability to centrally capture data from operations. With the recent development and implementation of information technology systems that can support the logistics …
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Quantitative Decision Models for Humanitarian Logistics
Humanitarian relief and aid organizations all over the world implement efforts aimed at recovering from disasters, reducing poverty and promoting human rights. The purpose of this dissertation is to develop a series of quantitative decision models to help address some of the challenges faced by …
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Creating a framework for a humanitarian response capacity index
Humanitarian logistics encapsulates all supply chain efforts in response to a disaster or emergency. Despite the increased focus on humanitarian supply chains, there is not a general method for measuring the supply chain response capacity. We propose a model for humanitarian response capacity based …
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Inventory Management and Control "For a Cause"
… decisions. Just as sustainability issues and humanitarian logistics are gaining popularity, so is the idea of using business to make a difference on society in addition to making a profit. As companies position themselves across the globe to make an impact, they employ people in third-world …
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Information Sharing in Humanitarian Supply Chain Management: The Case of Refugees Crisis in Jordan
… chain partners to ensure effective and efficient humanitarian logistics and the overall supply chain management (SCM) for successful relief operation. The process is essential for strategic planning and decision making to ensure effective operations, including timely and better response to …
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A mixed methods approach to modeling personal protective equipment supply chains for infectious disease outbreak response
… spike in demand has not been well-considered. Humanitarian logistics literature rarely considers infectious disease outbreaks as possible humanitarian crises while epidemiology literature assumes perfectly responsive supply chains. This thesis uses a mixed methods approach - an exploratory case …
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Structuring strategic decisions through the analytic hierarchy process : a case study in the selection of warehouse location for WFP in Ethiopia
Humanitarian logistic organizations struggle to make strategic and tactical decisions due to their lack of resources, the unpredictability of humanitarian events and the lack of readily available information; the existing tools that assist optimal decision making require large amounts of precise …
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Sustainability in Disaster Operations Management and Planning: An Operations Management Perspective
… of short-term recovery operations such as humanitarian logistics. However, limited emphasis has been placed on the long-term development scope of disaster operations. This dissertation argues the need for a fundamental shift in the motivation of archetypal disaster planning models, from …
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Resilience in Humanitarian Supply Chains: A Focus on the Procurement Decisions
… thesis looks into how the need for resilience in humanitarian aid supply chains influences procurement strategy decisions. Increasingly, the need for resilience in supply chains has become undoubted and management researchers have prescribed diverse ways of pursuing it; not only so that supply …
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The Development of Collaborative Relationships between Disaster Relief NGOs: Barriers and Solutions
… it provides important strategies for NGOs and humanitarian practitioners to overcome prominent collaboration barriers and improve their capacity to develop sustainable collaborative relationships, enabling them to respond more successfully to disasters. The study also offers significant …
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Optimization Models Addressing Emergency Management Decisions During a Mass Casualty Incident Response
Emergency managers are often faced with the toughest decisions that can ever be made, people's lives hang in the balance. Nevertheless, these tough decisions have to be made, and made quickly. There is usually too much information to process to make the best decisions. Decision support systems can …
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Organisationsmodelle für Beschaffung, Betrieb und Finanzierung von Lufttransportkapazitäten in der internationalen Katastrophenhilfe
Die Dissertation befasst sich mit der Organisation von humanitären Lufttransporten bei internationalen Katastrophen. Diese Flüge finden immer dann statt, wenn die eigene Hilfeleistungsfähigkeit der von Katastrophen betroffenen Regionen überfordert ist und Hilfe aus dem Ausland angefordert wird. Bei …