An RFID-based inventory management framework for emergency relief operations

Özgüven, Eren Erman; Özbay, Kaan

doi:10.1016/j.trc.2015.06.021

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“…An online emergency inventory system should be built that provides access to rich data sets, which can help researchers investigate decision-maker behavior related to emergency supply issues [ 22 – 25 , 30 ]. This data would help managers better evaluate the possibility for losses in disasters or accidents; this can also help managers adopt more appropriate risk management practices and make more reliable decisions.…”

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“…A more secure and efficient inventory management system for disasters can be built by integrating emergency smart technologies, such as Ratio Frequency Identification Devices (RFIDs), for commodity tracking and logistics; such devices can also be used for an online emergency inventory control system [ 22 – 25 ]. This paper makes a unique contribution by studying the emergency inventory plan, which should be decided before a disaster strikes, rather than focusing on emergency inventory control during a disaster response.…”

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Order policy for emergency medicine with return uncertainty in a closed-loop supply chain

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Due to difficulties in accurately predicting the emergency timing and the magnitude of a disaster, operations for perishable emergency inventory planning often encounter expiration and shortage problems. In order to ease the expiration problem in emergency medicine preparation inventories, this paper investigates an emergency medicine closed-loop supply chain for returning unused items from an ERC (Emergency Reserve Center) to a hospital. To assure that the return strategy is meaningful, we propose a critical parameter that we term the latest return time, after which the remaining emergency medicine in the ERC cannot be returned to the hospital. In addition, the short lifetime of emergency products and uncertainty about demand time and demand quantity are also considered in this emergency inventory planning system. In analyzing the optimal ordering policies, we find that the two threshold values for the predefined return time, which affect the total costs, are not monotonous; rather, the direction of their effect is first down, then up, and then down again, which means that a better predefined value of the latest return time can be determined by minimizing total costs. By studying and comparing decentralized and centralized decisions, we find that the centralized decision system works better to control expiration and costs. Therefore, we design a coordination mechanism for the cooperation between the ERC and the hospital. Our analysis shows that we should not ignore the emergency uncertainty and perishability of emergency items.

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“…The problem of selecting and locating of warehouses is assessed by the Hub Location Problem (HLP), and can be expanded to consider inventory or resource allocation among other features (Ozguven & Ozbay 2013;Ozguven & Ozbay 2015;Liu et al 2016;Hong et al 2018). However, the main limitation of previous HLP-focused studies relate to their inaccurate estimation of transportation cost.…”

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Optimal hub selection for rapid medical deliveries using unmanned aerial vehicles

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2020

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

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“…Interesting studies using RFID's for a variety of useful applications were identified in the review of available literature. Studies identified includes using RFID-based systems for inventory management in emergency relief operations [12], to managing shared inventory in steel yards [13], and to track large-scale products with multiple delivery challenges in precast plants [14]. Interesting work has also been performed using drones for material tracking on construction sites [15].…”

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Using RFID’s for job-site productivity evaluation of labor and crews

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2018

Creative Construction Conference 2018 - Proceedings

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Radio frequency identification (RFID) provide unique identification of objects through non-contact scanning. RFID technology has developed to the point where the price point has made the technology pervasive for inventory control and management of commercial products. Inventory control and storage management is paramount within construction and RFID's provide a useful alternative to bar-codes and other inventory management approaches. RFID's have the additional benefit of providing short-range communication capabilities which could enhance security and theft prevention through 'geofencing' style control. Material and equipment management are natural applications for the technology. The question naturally arises as to the impact of RFID on labor management and how such technology could be used to improve job-site productivity. This has been explored through research performed on-site in the Middle East to track location of workers and to post-process information for productivity assessment. The results of the study will be presented, the advantages and disadvantages discussed, and future research directions proposed.

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An RFID-based inventory management framework for emergency relief operations

Cited by 39 publications

References 36 publications

Order policy for emergency medicine with return uncertainty in a closed-loop supply chain

Order policy for emergency medicine with return uncertainty in a closed-loop supply chain

Optimal hub selection for rapid medical deliveries using unmanned aerial vehicles

Using RFID’s for job-site productivity evaluation of labor and crews

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