Humanizing Humanitarian Supply Chains: A Synthesis of Key Challenges

A hybrid decision support system for managing humanitarian relief chains

“…Time flag ( t TF ) is considered as the point where the system stops and checks the rules. t TF t  (7) Conditions: It includes a list of conditions. In order to start an action, all conditions should be satisfied.…”

“…Gutjahr and Nolz [12] emphasized that HRCs' actors need suitable DSS to manage HRCs. In addition, some research studies [7,8,[12][13][14] Despite the urgent need for developing suitable DSS for effective management of HRCs, our literature review reveals a development gap for DSS with the aforementioned characteristics. Indeed, lack of some key features in existing DSS for responding to large-scale no-notice disasters such as earthquake and flood is evident.…”

“…However, there are few studies that account for these unique features of HRCs and incorporating multiple factors for trade-off analysis of cost efficiency and responsiveness measures [6]. In this regard, practitioners need more applicable methods that can help them manage HRCs more effectively by considering their main characteristics [7,8].…”

“…Part of the obtained knowledge for the three sample scenarios is summarized in Table 3. performance of the proposed HDSS network and existing configuration is comprised at [6][7][8][9][10][11][12], [12][13][14][15][16][17][18], and [18][19][20][21][22][23][24] hours after an earthquake.…”

“…Although, more LTs have been setup in the existing configuration in the first 12 hours, the RS and BT measures are comparable to HDSS configuration. Since the amount of available relief items were not equal to the capacity of setup LTs in the first[6][7][8][9][10][11][12], the RS and BT are comparable(Table 4). Furthermore, the TC of the existing network is more than that of HDSS configuration in the first[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] (under scenario 1: TC of the existing configuration is 145646 and the TC of the HDSS is 81409).…”