A Risk-Based Location-Allocation Approach for Weapon Logistics

Cihan Çetinkaya and Samer Haffar
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Cihan Çetinkaya: Department of Management Information Systems, Adana Science and Technology University, 01250 Adana, Turkey
Samer Haffar: Department of Industrial Engineering, Gaziantep University, 27310 Gaziantep, Turkey

Logistics, 2018, vol. 2, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: Governments have vital missions, such as securing their nation from many internal or external risks/threats. Thus, they prepare themselves against different scenarios. The most common scenario for all countries is “facing attacks from other countries”. However, training for these scenarios is not possible because military exercises are too expensive. The contribution of this paper is a scientific approach proposed for such a scenario. A mathematical model is developed to allocate different weapon types to a set of candidate locations (demand nodes, the military installations that need weapons) while minimizing total transportation costs, setup costs, and allocation risk. The risk arises from allocating the weapons to other military units as backups during a conflict. The risk increases when one military unit allocates their weapons to another unit during attacks. The mathematical model is tested on a case study problem of Turkish Land Forces. This case study is solved in 14 min, and the optimal total transportation and setup costs are determined. Since it is very important to make quick decisions during an attack, this scientific approach and computational time can be useful for military decision makers. Additionally, the results of this study can guarantee that any attack can be handled with the minimum cost and risk.

Keywords: location-allocation; risk; weapon logistics; homeland defense (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L8 L80 L81 L86 L87 L9 L90 L91 L92 L93 L98 L99 M1 M10 M11 M16 M19 R4 R40 R41 R49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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