A review of lean and agile management in humanitarian supply chains: analysing the pre-disaster and post-disaster phases, and future directions
Journal article
Authors | Upadhyay, A., Mukhuty, S., Kumari, S., Garza-Reyes, J. and Shukla, V. |
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Abstract | Disasters have quadrupled over the last two decades leading to unprecedented loss of life. The objective of disaster-focused humanitarian supply chains (HSCs) is to ensure saving maximum lives with limited resources; despite severe uncertainties. Therefore, significant research has investigated lean and agile in HSCs; to effectively source and speedily deploy resources, with minimum wastage; in each disaster life-cycle phase. However, the literature and research findings are currently highly disjointed regarding how lean and agile principles may be aligned with different HSC activities in the disaster management lifecycle; and do not provide a collective understanding for practitioners and researchers. This paper reviews and organises the literature on HSCs in relation to lean and agile paradigms, focusing on the pre-disaster (mitigation and preparedness) and post-disaster (response and recovery) phases. Findings reveal, all phases benefit from both lean and agile, with agile benefiting the response phase most. The phases are inter-dependent and identifying optimum decoupling points for lean and agile principles are crucial. Majority research has focused on individual or a couple of phases. Therefore, authors recommend research on integrating the functions of the different phases by employing lean and agile principles, to generate rapid response, economies of scale and cost minimisation |
Keywords | lean; agile; disaster phases; disaster lifecycle; humanitarian supply chains; review |
Year | 2022 |
Journal | Production Planning & Control |
Journal citation | 33 (6-7), pp. 641-654 |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN | 0953-7287 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2020.1834133 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09537287.2020.1834133 |
http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | |
http://hdl.handle.net/10545/625273 | |
hdl:10545/625273 | |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 21 Oct 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 04 May 2020 |
Deposited | 23 Oct 2020 |
Rights | CC0 1.0 Universal |
Contributors | University of Brighton, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Hull, University of Derby and Middlesex University, London |
File | File Access Level Open |
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