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Governments have spent millions in disaster relief, but there are always questions on the efficacy of these efforts. Key issues with disaster relief have been - getting relief supplies to disaster struck areas in time, in sufficient quantities and being able to cover the nook and corners of the affected region.
These issues raise concerns about the current logistics and supply chain systems, if any, for disaster scenarios. We believe logistics and supply chain systems for disaster relief require effective management of: -

Scope of the Paper

This paper addresses the shortcomings in the current disaster management (DM) supply chain scenario, and suggests a methodology to establish a robust supply chain and logistics network. The paper will provide details of: -

In this paper, the supply chain planning has been discussed assuming that the disaster probability/forecasting modeling has been done and the outputs of such exercises are available for DM back-bone design.

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Varun Gupta & Naresh Mahadevan,
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.