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The Literature Review and Future Prospects of Relief Supply Chain for Unexpected Natural Disasters

Fang Lei, Xia Yu, Yang Yueming, Chang Hao, Duan Yangli, Wang Ruotian   

  1. School of Business, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071
  • Received:2014-04-15 Online:2016-08-28 Published:2016-09-24

Abstract:

After the sudden large-scale natural disasters, an acid test for the emergency logisticscalls for people's reaction abilities to carry out disaster relief work timely and efficiently within limited time and space. How to build a comprehensive and efficient relief supply chain system is a key issue in the research field of disaster relief management, which will determine the extent of the loss and damage caused by natural disasters. Based on the summarization of the relief supply chain research status for unexpected natural disasters, this paper gives a comprehensive review and analyzes the perspectives of the concept of relief supply chain, the logistics system planning and optimization, the building and operation, and the performance evaluation. Finally, we make some prospects for the future research directions of relief supply chain. It not only offers valuable references for theoretical research and reasonable construction of the supply chain system, but also provides guidance for disaster relief work.

Key words: unexpected natural disasters, relief supply chain, literature review, future prospects