Issues and Challenges in Self-Sustaining Response Supply Chains

Abstract

The most basic representation of a supply chain has three elements: supply, demand, and the flow between the two. A humanitarian response supply chain (RSC) has to a large extent unknown demand and at best uncertain supply demand with disruptive flow. A self-sustaining supply chain (SSSC) requires that the supply chain itself provide all resources consumed while transporting supplies, thus complicating the operations with numerous challenges and unfamiliar issues. If an RSC is self-sustaining, it will reduce some of the uncertainties in supply. However, self-sustaining response supply chains (SSRSC) generate significant additional cost for being extreme supply chains. To understand the costs associated with SSRSC observed in special operations and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR), they must be compared and contrasted against the known characteristics of traditional supply chains. This work explores the issues and challenges of SSRSC that arise in logistics networks.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA583933

Entities

People

  • Aruna U. Apte
  • Daniel Nussbaum
  • Eva Regnier
  • Jay Simon
  • John Khawam

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Commerce
  • Department Of Defense
  • Disasters
  • First Responders
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Logistics
  • Logistics Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Operations Management
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Public Policy
  • Supply Chain
  • Uncertainty

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.