Development of Humanitarian Supply Chain Network Design Method at the Time of Large Scale Disaster Outbreak

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26350428
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social systems engineering/Safety system
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: Kainuma Yasutaka 首都大学東京, システムデザイン学部, 教授 (90204312)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 災害救援 / 人道支援 / サプライ・チェーン / ネットワーク設計

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In humanitarian supply chains, there is a need to consider how to distribute the limited relief supplies that have not been prepared sufficiently to each shelter. It is important to consider not only reducing the distribution cost but also how to deliver goods quickly to satisfy the demands of shelters. Therefore, three metrics have been proposed for humanitarian supply chains; efficiency, equity, and efficacy. The objective of this paper is to define the metric of efficacy to minimize distribution time to each shelter considering the relief goods arrival. Next, we investigate not only optimization by one of each metric but also multi-objective optimization by the three metrics. We formulate multi-objective mathematical model by the multiple metrics and carry out the optimization by using the model. It suggests that the proposed multi-objective model is very promising in dealing with complicated humanitarian supply chains.

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