Integrating supply chains for emergencies and ongoing operations in UNHCR
研究了联合国难民署如何通过联合预置仓库模型，将政治和安全因素纳入选址决策，实现应急与日常运营供应链整合，从而降低成本并缩短响应时间。
Abstract Humanitarian organizations (HOs) often base their warehouse locations on individuals' experience and knowledge rather than on decision‐support tools. Many HOs run separate supply chains for emergency response and ongoing operations. Based on reviews of humanitarian network design literature combined with an in‐depth case study of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), this paper presents a warehouse location model for joint prepositioning that incorporates political and security situation factors. Although accessibility, co‐location, security, and human resources are crucial to the practice of humanitarian operations management, such contextual factors have not been included in existing network optimization models before. We found that when quantified, and modeled, such factors are important determinants of network configuration. In addition, our results suggest that joint prepositioning for emergency response and ongoing operations allows for expansion of the global warehouse network, and reducing cost and response time.