The aftermath of a rapid-onset disaster is the most crucial period, during which health and humanitarian organizations (HOs) must distribute critical relief items at quickest possible time. Yet, supply management is a significant challenge due to many unknowns such as time, place, type, and...

Problem definition: Considering a mix of pre-positioning and local purchasing, common to cover humanitarian demands in the aftermath of a rapid-onset disaster, we propose policies to determine pre-position stock. These formulations are developed in the presence of demand, budget and local supply...

Every year, humanitarian organizations assign a sizable slice of their limited financial resources to procure, operate and maintain operational assets, without which service delivery would be impossible. In this paper, using vehicles as representative of operational assets, we identify policies...