Inventory relocation for overlapping disaster settings in humanitarian operations

OR Spectrum

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 721-749

  Rottkemper, Beate ^a   Fischer, Kathrin ^a   Blecken, Alexander ^b   Danne, Christoph ^b  

^a HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Humanitarian logistics; Inventory relocation; Overlapping disasters; Transshipment planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959761554     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-011-0260-5     Document Type: Article

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