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Till now most of the research has been devoted to pre-disaster forecasting, warning and evacuation and post-disaster management involving communications, search and rescue, medical and psychiatric assistance, provision of relief and sheltering, fire-fighting, etc.; with some emphasis on organizational structures as well as cost-benefit analysis in postcrisis phase.
All these research is from social science perspective.

What has been missed out is developing professional judgment framework to cope with the conditions of uncertainty during the crisis phase². Here we try to provide a decision making framework in in-crisis and post-crisis phases with emphasis on supply chain issues. This framework is generic and needs to be modified for specific hazard and geographical location. However in this paper our focus will remain on supply chain issues related to evacuation and post-disaster relief as these are.

Decision Flow for Disaster management Supply Chain

Goal of the disaster management system is to protect life and property of population and restoration of normalcy at the earliest. This is constrained by uncertainty, available funding, time, interaction, political will, complexity and other sociological issues. Creativity fostered by rational design is essential to overcome the complexity of emergency environment. A typical decision problem can be transformed into following type of decision hierarchy.

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2 Managing Disaster: Strategic & Polity Perspectives, Comfort Louise, 1998, Duke University Press.

* Contributed by: -
Abhishek Siroya & Hemant Joshi,
IIM Lucknow.