Understanding the complexity of emergency supply chains /

While conventional commercial supply chains may be complicated, emergency supply chains are inherently complex. In responding to an emergency, they lack a developed forecast, primarily use manual requisitioning systems, and do not possess sophisticated means to sense and respond to the rapidly emerg...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Shatzkin, Matt (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Business Expert Press, 2017.
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Supply and operations management collection.
Sujets:
Business logistics.
Emergency transportation.
Emergency management.
Logistics.
Logistique (Organisation)
Transport d'urgence.
Logistique.
Business logistics
Emergency management
Emergency transportation
Logistics
Authorized Stockage List (ASL)
automated and manual requisitioning systems
complexity
demand
disaster relief
effectiveness
efficiency
emergency
forecasting
Haiti
military expeditions
nongovernmental organizations
performance
supply chain
U.S. Army
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Table des matières:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. General sources of complexity within emergency supply chains
  • 3. Part 1: Understanding complexity within the military domain of emergency supply chains
  • Part 2: The nature of an expedition
  • 4. Understanding complexity within the NGO-led disaster relief domain of emergency supply chains
  • 5. Part 1: The potential for emerging capabilities in emergency supply chains
  • Part 2: A proposed hierarchy for evaluating effective supply chains
  • 6. Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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