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 bool include:

1) To achieve fairness and accuracy of material distribution during the epidemic, this book constructs a material shortage adjustment function; 2) From the comprehensive perspective of cross-regional coordination, multi-organization coordination and multi-period 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.

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.