Temporary Hubs for the Global Vehicle Supply Chain in Humanitarian Operations Academic Article

abstract

• 2015 Production and Operations Management Society. We model the global vehicle supply chain of an International Humanitarian Organization (IHO) with a dynamic hub location model across monthly periods. We use actual vehicle data from the International Federation of the Red Cross to feed our model and provide insights into IHO secondary support demand. We find that secondary support demand for items such as vehicles is different from primary beneficiary demand for items such as water and food. When considering disaster response and development program demand simultaneously (disaster cycle management), our results illustrate that keeping a lean centralized hub configuration with an option for temporary hubs in mega disaster locations can reduce overall supply chain costs over a long time horizon. We also show that it is possible to structure a supply chain to take operational advantage of earmarked funding. This research lays the groundwork for using optimization models to analyze disaster cycle management.

authors

• Stauffer, Jon

published proceedings

• PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

altmetric score

• 1

author list (cited authors)

• Stauffer, J. M., Pedraza-Martinez, A. J., & Van Wassenhove, L. N.

citation count

• 55

complete list of authors

• Stauffer, Jon M||Pedraza-Martinez, Alfonso J||Van Wassenhove, Luk N

publication date

• February 2016

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

keywords

• Disaster Cycle Management
• Dynamic Hub Location
• Earmarked Funding
• Humanitarian Logistics

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/poms.12427

start page

• 192

end page

• 209

volume

• 25

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/poms.12427