Abstract:
Unforeseen events such as earthquakes, floods occur indifferent parts of the world or, like COVID-19 pandemic, affects the entire globally. The lack of proper preparation and confrontation with these accidents will cause heavy losses and damages to the nations which is sometimes irreparable. Humanitarian supply chains include all actors who are all on supposed to reduce the pain of the victims of the accident and are cooperating with each other to provide services to the victims of these accidents. The goal of a humanitarian supply chain,is not to make more profit, but saving the lives of mostly innocent people is preventing the crisis from escalating. Providing equipment, resources and facilities for relief operations and rescuing as well as meeting the needs of the victims is one of the most important issues in humanitarian action. Choosing right suppliers in the humanitarian supply chain is mainly based on two main criteria of “Technical Production Capability” and also “Response Support Capability” where the success factors in this chain focus on the agent environment, technology and organization. Obstacles to the implementation of the humanitarian supply chain are classified into five groups of “force barrier human”, “structural barriers”, “technological barriers”, cultural barriers” and “financial barriers”. In addition ,other issues such as the destruction of supply chain infrastructure like transportation infrastructure, warehouses storage of equipment and relief needs as a risk can also disrupt the humanitarian supply chain. Understanding such risks enables the humanitarian supply chain to be able to detect and deal with all unexpected events.
Machine summary:
Analyzing and Ranking of Critical Success Factors of Humanitarian Supply Chain during COVID-19 Pandemic Marzieh Amirhoseinia, Nazanin Pilevari*b a Department of Industrial Managementerat, Islamic Azad University, Wes Tehran Branch,,Tehran , Iran.
C H R O N I C L E AbstractArticle history Received: 10/11/2020 Received in revised: 26/01/2021 Accepted: 10/02/2021 Keywords: 4 to 6 * Humanitarian supply chain* Supplier resilience* Implementation risks and barriers* COVID-19 pandemic Every year, natural disasters and unforeseen events such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, droughts and fires occur indifferent parts of the world or, like COVID-19 pandemic, affects the entire globally.
Choosing right suppliers in the humanitarian supply chain is mainly based on two main criteria of “Technical Production Capability” and also “Response Support Capability” where the success factors in this chain focus on the agent environment, technology and organization.
On the one hand, the main and secondary suppliers of the humanitarian supply chain, who themselves are involved in the limitations and disorders caused by this new virus and sometimes are not able to respond; and on the other hand, the number of people who need help is increasing day by day, and also communication bridges and physical exchanges with many countries are stopped or disrupted due to health, religious, political, etc.
Research Method Since the purpose of this study is to "investigate the effect of resilient supplier selection on the success of the humanitarian supply chain in the COVID-19 pandemic", its results can be used in Red Cross, Rescue and Crisis Management to increase disaster preparedness and humanitarian logistics efficiency.
Keywords:
resilience
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Supply chain
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humanitarian
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covid-19
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