Supply chain for Good: Enhancing governmental rapid response logistics with industry spare capacity

美好供应链：利用行业闲置产能增强政府快速反应物流

• 批准号: 556345-2020
• 负责人: Gzara, Fatma
• 金额: $ 4.04万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Alliance Grants
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=706216
• 关键词: Supply; chain; Good; Enhancing; governmental

During times of crisis such as the COVID 19 pandemic, the government faces two major challenges with respect to meeting demand for critical supplies such as personal protective equipment (PPE) and test kits. As inventories of such supplies are depleted and demand rises, it becomes essential to make optimal use of resources at the local, regional and federal levels and in the immediate, short and medium time frames. While some distribution channels are overwhelmed with increased demand from online deliveries and suffer serious shortages in capacity, other channels are affected negatively by the pandemic and have idle capacity that can be repurposed to alleviate pressure on existing channels. This applies to the automotive aftermarket distribution network which continues to operate as an essential service but is experiencing significant decrease in demand, and hence offers residual capacity that can be leveraged to help combat the pandemic. The aftermarket supply chain offers efficient and timely delivery capabilities to different regions of the country as well as inventory capacity for safe storage and retrieval. The current project will investigate and optimize the use of the capacity and efficiency of the aftermarket automotive distribution network to optimally enhance the capability of government distribution networks to meet health care and public sector needs for critical supplies. A modeling framework based on state-of-the-art techniques in Operations Research will be developed to integrate multiple supply chain networks to serve a common goal. We call such a framework: Supply Chain for Good. While based on the automotive aftermarket in Canada, the framework will be general and will have the necessary tools and mechanisms to leverage spare capacity in existing supply chain, logistics and distribution networks that become available in times of crisis to help address urgent needs. The framework will have the dual socio-economic benefit of creating economic opportunities for participating supply chains as well as of ensuring critical supplies are available when needed. It has the bigger objective of reducing the immediate and future risk of an aggravated situation, in the case of covid-19, that of the propagation of the disease.

在危机时期，如新冠状病毒19大流行，政府在满足个人防护装备(PPE)和检测试剂盒等关键物资需求方面面临两大挑战。随着这类物资的库存耗尽和需求上升，在地方、地区和联邦各级以及在近期、短期和中期范围内充分利用资源变得至关重要。虽然一些分销渠道因在线交付的需求增加而不堪重负，并面临严重的能力短缺，但其他渠道受到疫情的负面影响，其闲置能力可以重新利用，以缓解现有渠道的压力。这适用于汽车售后市场分销网络，该网络继续作为一项基本服务运营，但需求正在大幅下降，因此提供了可用于帮助抗击大流行的剩余能力。售后市场供应链向该国不同地区提供高效和及时的交货能力，以及安全储存和检索的库存能力。目前的项目将调查和优化售后汽车分销网络的容量和效率的使用，以最佳方式提高政府分销网络的能力，以满足医疗保健和公共部门对关键供应的需求。将开发一个基于运筹学最先进技术的建模框架，以整合多个供应链网络，以服务于共同目标。我们称之为这样一个框架：供应链向善。虽然该框架以加拿大的汽车售后市场为基础，但框架将是一般性的，并将拥有必要的工具和机制，以利用现有供应链、物流和分销网络中的闲置产能，这些网络在危机时期可用来帮助解决紧急需求。该框架将具有为参与的供应链创造经济机会以及确保在需要时提供关键供应的双重社会经济利益。它还有一个更大的目标，那就是降低疫情恶化的当前和未来风险，就新冠肺炎而言，就是疾病传播的风险。