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Impact Of Disasters On Firms In Different Sectors: Implications For Supply Chains, Nezih Altay, Andres Ramirez
Impact Of Disasters On Firms In Different Sectors: Implications For Supply Chains, Nezih Altay, Andres Ramirez
Nezih Altay
Disasters keep damaging infrastructure, disrupting supply chains and affecting firm profitability. There is an urgent need for better understanding of disaster impact on supply chains but very few publications address this issue. This exploratory study takes an indirect approach and investigates disaster impact on firms in various industry sectors. This approach allows us to take full advantage of large secondary data bases of firm and disaster data in order to analyze the impact of over 3,500 disasters on more than 100,000 firm-year observations over 15 years. Our results indicate that disasters impact all sectors within a supply chain. We found …
Strategic Planning For Disaster Relief Logistics: Lessons From Supply Chain Management, Nezih Altay, Sameer Prasad, Jayavel Sounderpandian
Strategic Planning For Disaster Relief Logistics: Lessons From Supply Chain Management, Nezih Altay, Sameer Prasad, Jayavel Sounderpandian
Nezih Altay
Abstract: Management of disaster relief logistics requires different techniques at different levels. We identify four stages: 1 strategic planning which concerns high level decisions such as supplier selection and confirmation of communication protocols 2 preparedness which concerns decisions regarding the amount and location of relief supplies to be stored 3 pre-event response which concerns decisions during those occasions when an approaching disaster, such as a hurricane, has been detected 4 post-event response which concerns what needs to be done immediately after a disaster has occurred. In this article, we concentrate on the strategic planning stage and build an integrated logistics …