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System Dynamics for Procurement and Transport in Brazilian Humanitarian Operations

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Operations Management for Social Good (POMS 2018)

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Humanitarian relief organizations need to be operationally effective to grip with disasters. We proposed simulating scenarios on procurement and transport of essential items in a Brazilian case, using System Dynamics. This study will allow a systemic view of the humanitarian supply chain providing information about time rates for decision making.

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The authors would like to thank to the CAPES agency in Brazil and to the Federal University of Santa Catarina for the financial support.

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  1. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil

    Carlos Eduardo Pereira Carpes, Fabiana Santos Lima, Mauricio Uriona-Maldonado & Ricardo Villarroel Dávalos

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  2. Universidad Nacional de Colombia at Medellin (UNAL-Medellin), Medellín, Colombia

    Carlos Alberto González-Calderón

  3. Universidade Estadual Paulista at São José dos Campos (ICT-UNESP), São Paulo, Brazil

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    Hugo Tsugunobu Yoshida Yoshizaki

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Carpes, C.E.P., Lima, F.S., Uriona-Maldonado, M., Dávalos, R.V. (2020). System Dynamics for Procurement and Transport in Brazilian Humanitarian Operations. In: Leiras, A., González-Calderón, C., de Brito Junior, I., Villa, S., Yoshizaki, H. (eds) Operations Management for Social Good. POMS 2018. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23816-2_23

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