An integrated location-inventory-routing humanitarian supply chain network with pre- and post-disaster management considerations

Madjid Tavana, Amir-Reza Abtahi, Debora Di Caprio, Reza Hashemi and Reza Yousefi-Zenouz

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2018, vol. 64, issue C, 21-37

Abstract: Efficiency is a key success factor in complex supply chain networks. It is imperative to ensure proper flow of goods and services in humanitarian supply chains in response to a disaster. To this end, we propose a multi-echelon humanitarian logistic network that considers the location of central warehouses, managing the inventory of perishable products in the pre-disaster phase, and routing the relief vehicles in the post-disaster phase. An epsilon-constraint method, a non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II), and a modified NSGA-II called reference point based non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm-II (RPBNSGA-II) are proposed to solve this mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problem. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) is used to analyze the results showing that NSGA-II performs better than the other algorithms with small size problems while RPBNSGA-II outperforms the other algorithms with large size problems.

Keywords: Humanitarian supply chain; Facility location; Vehicle routing; Inventory management; Multi-objective optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2017.12.004

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