Issues and Challenges in Self-Sustaining Response Supply Chains
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Apte, Aruna
Khawam, John
Regnier, Eva
Simon, Jay
Nussbaum, Daniel
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2013-09-28Metadata
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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 in order to
understand the costs associated with SSRSC observed in special operations and humanitarian assistance
and disaster relief.
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