In cases where the private sector struggles to cope with the impact of a disaster, authorities try to reduce the burden on the population and set up supply chains to distribute essential goods. Therefore, they estimate demand and location of the affected people and open points of distribution to...

Collaboration in emergency logistics can be beneficial for governmental actors when supply chains need to be set up immediately. In comparison to research on humanitarian-business partnerships, the body of literature on so-called Public-Private Emergency Collaborations (PPEC) remains scarce....

Purpose: Transport infrastructures form the backbone of today's interconnected real economy. Interruptions in the availability of these critical infrastructures occur, among other things, due to maintenance operations. Since companies and Supply Chains are dependent on planning security, an...

Flexibilität wird im globalen Wettbewerb immer wichtiger. Viele Kunden erwarten kurze Lieferzeiten bei hoher Termintreue und die Fähigkeit, Produkte kurzfristig an ihre individuellen Wünsche anpassen zu können. In Industrieunternehmen wird daher neben entsprechenden organisatorischen...