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) tends to have unknown demand and, at best, uncertain supply with disrupted flow. A self-sustaining supply chain 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. We explore the issues and challenges of SSRSC that arise in logistics networks to understand the costs associated with SSRSC observed in special operations and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 28, 2013
Accession Number
ADA591796

Entities

People

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

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Combat Operations
  • Commerce
  • Department Of Defense
  • Disaster Management
  • Disasters
  • Electronic Mail
  • Emergencies
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Iraqi-War
  • Literature Surveys
  • Logistics
  • Mathematical Models
  • Operations Research
  • Public Policy
  • Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Management

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Theoretical Analysis.