Advances in Planning and Operation of Relief Supply Chain in Major Public Health Emergency

With Operations Research and System Dynamics as research tools, this book discusses the theme of emergency supplies in Major Public Health Emergency (MPHE) scenarios. The subject includes a series of new issues: critical criteria matching supply with demand for emergency supplies in MPHE, emergency medical materials reserve mode, dynamic optimization of emergency logistics, dynamic optimization of allocating multi-period and multi-category emergency supplies, etc. This book is suitable for university teachers, undergraduate and graduate students, and researchers in fields of logistics and supply chain management as well as emergency management. The most important features of this book include: Firstly, to achieve fairness and accuracy of material distribution during the epidemic, this book constructs a material shortage adjustment function. Secondly, from the comprehensive perspective of cross-regional coordination, multi-organization coordination and multiperiod coordination, the operation optimization models of emergency material supply in major epidemic situation are constructed. Additionally, the comparative analysis and empirical research of the practices in China and Germany also reflects the novelty and benefit of the book.

Chapter 1.-Key Issues of Guarantee of Emergency Supplies against Major Epidemics and Countermeasures from the Perspectives of Multi Organizations and Multi-Stages.- Chapter 2.-Empirical Research on Emergency Material Supply System in MPHE.- Chapter 3.-System Dynamics Analysis of Emergency Medical Materials in MPHE.- Chapter 4.-Personal Protective Equipment Supply Improvement Considering Cross-regional Factors during Outbreak Stage.- Chapter 5.-Dynamic Optimization of Emergency Logistics for Major Epidemic Considering Demand Urgency.- Chapter 6.-Dynamic Optimization of Allocating Multi-period and Multi-category Emergency Supplies in MPHE.

Jiazhen Huo, PhD, Professor,Chair of Global Supply Chain Management sponsored by BOSCH, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, China. His research interests are Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Service Operations Management. In the past decades, he has published more than 30 papers on the journals such as OR, JOM, IJPE, EJOR, IJPR and other high-quality journals, and presided 7 research projects funded by the National Nature Science Foundation and a number of consulting projects.

Jianjun Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor at School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, China. His research interests are Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Operations model innovation. He has published more than 20 papers on high-quality journals such as Interfaces and Journal of Management Science in China. More than 10 of his research projects are funded by Natural Science Foundation of China, Social Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Education of China, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission.

Axel Werwatz, PhD, Professor, Chair of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. His research interests are econometrics and business statistics. He has published more than 20 papers in international high-quality journals and 20 papers in other journals and collected volumes, and presided numerous research projects funded by DFG, Deutsche Telekomm Stiftung, etc.

Guanwei Huang, PhD, Associate Professor at School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, China. His research interests are Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Electronic Commerce.  He has published more than 40 papers and 4 monographies, and presided 3 research projects funded respectively by the National Nature Science Foundation, CSC, and Shanghai Municipal Commission of Science and Technology.