Title
Complexity And Self-Sustainment In Disaster Response Supply Chains
Abstract
Governmental organizations play a major role in disaster relief operations. Supply chains set up to respond to disasters differ dramatically in many dimensions that affect the cost of relief efforts. One factor that has been described recently is self-sustainment, which occurs when supplies consumed by intermediate stages of a supply chain must be provided via the chain itself because they are not locally available. This article applies the concept of self-sustainment to response supply chains. A mathematical model of a self-sustaining response supply chain is developed. Analysis of this model yields insights about the relationships and interactions among self-sustainment, speed of disaster onset, dispersion of impact, and the cost of the relief efforts. [Submitted: July 25, 2013. Revised: October 13, 2014. Accepted: October 15, 2014.]
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1111/deci.12148
DECISION SCIENCES
Keywords
Field
DocType
supply chains
Service management,Economics,Emergency management,Supply chain risk management,Supply chain,Operations management
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
47
6
0011-7315
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
2
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aruna Apte1101.94
John Khawam250.85
Eva Regnier3244.42
jay simon4103.41