C³M co-chairing the logistics track at ISCRAM 2015

15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response

CALL FOR PAPERS: T4 – Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Crisis Response

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRACK

There is a need to improve the freshness, quality, effectiveness, appropriateness, and accessibility of information and communication systems intended to facilitate logistics and supply chain management in the face of devastating disasters. This improvement must be based on an increased understanding of the disaster relief realities, faced difficulties and the decision maker’s needs: Crisis scenarios and phases have to be differentiated; inducers of evolution of crisis or changes in its nature must be highlighted; all involved actors and entities, their interests, motivations, and strategies as well as the existing interrelations and interdependences have to be considered; the existing practices in the crisis management sector need to be understood and reflected; problems, limits, barriers in relief supply chains must be formalized; supporting humanitarian information systems need to be examined critically. Organized by the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) on behalf of ISCRAM association. The overall objective of this track is to discuss and reflect contributions on the design, deployment, application and evaluation of information systems for logistics and supply chain management in the area of crisis management, including all relevant actors with a special focus of humanitarian actors. For this purpose potential contributions need provide both rigorous research methods and relevant approaches reflecting the practitioner’s realities. In order to ensure an appropriate balance of both criteria practitionercentered reviewer will be involved in the review process. 

TRACK TOPICS

• Possible topics of interest for this track include the following:
• Process modeling and analysis of disaster relief chains
• Quantitative methods and simulation in disaster relief logistics
• Performance measurement and monitoring of disaster relief chains
• Logistics decision making in crisis management
• Transportation in crisis situations
• Warehousing and inventory management for disaster relief
• Emergency procurement
• Coordination and collaboration in disaster relief chains
• Humanitarian logistics and supply chains
• Governance of ad-hoc logistics networks in crisis management
• Early detection and assessment of requirements for disaster relief chains
• Humanitarian supply chain resilience
• Big data for supply chain management in crisis situation