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Supply Chain Decisions in Governmental Organizations
Author(s) -
Ferrer Geraldo,
Vastag Gyula,
Lee Gyu M.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
decision sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.238
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1540-5915
pISSN - 0011-7315
DOI - 10.1111/deci.12263
Subject(s) - library science , deci , citation , service (business) , political science , management , sociology , marketing , business , computer science , law , economics , autonomy
Apte, Khawam, Regnier and Simon (2017) discuss the challenge of maintaining a self-sustaining supply chain during a disaster response operation. A self-sustaining supply chain is characterized by the partial consumption of the supplies that it carries to the final user. It is a particularly relevant concern in military logistics and in disaster response operations when the delivery location lacks logistics infrastructure to support the logisticians who are bringing the supplies to its destination. For this reason, a substantial amount of the resources that enter in the self-sustaining supply chain are consumed within the supply chain, and only a fraction of the supplied resources arrive at the destination.