Investigation the requirements of supply and distribution emergency logistics management and categorization its sub-criteria using AHP: a case study


Sadegh Feizollahi, Alireza Shirmohammadi and Zahra Safari Kahreh


The management of procurement and distribution is one of the most important branches of the crisis management and events that, has great importance in the field of management. In this paper, we perform an empirical study to investigate important factors on emergency logistic emergency preparation distribution management among people who worked for governorship, hygiene and treatment, Red Crescent, electricity, water and sewage and transportation of central province of Ilam in west part of Iran. The survey distributed a questionnaire among some people and examined six hypotheses. The results of our survey indicate that employees who worked for these organizations maintained high levels of skills; they were able to access what they needed in their organization. In addition, the survey indicates that the access to the necessary information in their organizations; they are able to take care of their documentations. They could also execute their jobs based on good schedules and accomplished their tasks, properly. They survey also performed a multi-criteria decision making approach using AHP to prioritize important activities to improve logistic operations. The results indicate that having a good database is number one priority with relative weight of 0.51, followed by appropriate operating planning with relative weight of 0.295. Supply control came on the third position with relative weight of 0.134 and finally task assignment came as the last priority with relative weight of 0.061.


DOI: j.msl.2012.08.010

Keywords: Management preparation and distribution ,Crisis management ,Logistic emergency ,Analytic-Hierarchy-process

How to cite this paper:

Feizollahi, S., Shirmohammadi, A & Kahreh, Z. (2012). Investigation the requirements of supply and distribution emergency logistics management and categorization its sub-criteria using AHP: a case study.Management Science Letters, 2(7), 2335-2340.


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