Woon-Seek Lee, Byung Soo Kim, Prudensy Febreine Opit
Stock pre-positioning is one of the most important decisions for preparing the stage of emergency logistics planning. In this paper, a mixed integer model for stock pre-positioning is derived to support an emergency disaster relief response against the event of earthquake. A maximum response time limit, budget availability, multiple item types, and capacity restrictions are considered. In the model, the decision of the distribution centers to cover a disaster area and the amount of supplies to be stocked in each distribution center are simultaneously determined to maximize the total expected relief demand of the disaster areas covered by the existing distribution centers. The proposed model is applied to a real case with 33 disaster areas and 16 distribution centers in Indonesia. Several sensitivity analyses are conducted to estimate the fluctuation on the emergency stock pre-positioning planning by changing the maximum response time and budgets. © 2014 KIIE.
Department of Systems Management and Engineering, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea; Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon, South Korea; Department of Industrial Engineering, De La Salle Catholic University, Manado, Indonesia
