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Logistics Preparedness for Disaster Response in Indonesia
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Predictive Analytics
- Functional Applications - Remote Monitoring & Control Systems
Applicable Industries
- Security & Public Safety
- Transportation
Applicable Functions
- Logistics & Transportation
- Facility Management
Use Cases
- Supply Chain Visibility
- Predictive Maintenance
- Remote Asset Management
Services
- System Integration
- Data Science Services
The Challenge
Located on the edges of two continental and two oceanic tectonic plates, Indonesia is home to more than 500 volcanoes (128 of which are active), and threatened by some of the greatest seismic activity in the world. Furthermore, much of this activity is offshore and brings the significant added risk of tsunamis. The country experiences recurring small/medium scale natural disasters compounded by a high risk of less frequent, but very large-scale, natural disasters that necessitate a systemwide international humanitarian response. When disasters strike, especially in remote areas of the Indonesian archipelago, existing response capacities are invariably stretched. Besides operational challenges brought about by the country’s geographical characteristics, national disaster response capabilities are further limited by poor logistics infrastructure, especially in remote areas, and lack of facilities to store, handle, and consolidate humanitarian cargo for distribution in disaster-affected areas. TLI-AP was tasked with considering the prepositioning of relief supplies at strategic locations across Indonesia to enhance national disaster response capabilities. The developers wanted to select the most appropriate locations for establishing an efficient network of emergency response facilities in Indonesia. The network design requirements included each of the six main islands needing to be equipped with its own emergency response facility and no capacity constraints for the facilities being sited.
About The Customer
The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific (TLI-AP) is a premier research institute in the Asia Pacific region, dedicated to nurturing logistics excellence in research and education. They were approached by a leading humanitarian organization to address a supply network design challenge for disaster preparedness to support the Indonesian National Government. This organization plays a crucial role in the Logistics Cluster, which is part of their mandate to support national governments of disaster-exposed countries in building logistics capabilities to cope with humanitarian crises. The humanitarian organization needed TLI-AP's expertise to enhance Indonesia's national disaster response capabilities by prepositioning relief supplies at strategic locations across the country. The goal was to establish an efficient network of emergency response facilities to improve the performance of relief operations, especially in remote areas of the Indonesian archipelago.
The Solution
TLI–AP chose the anyLogistix (ALX) platform to address the challenge of network design posed by the humanitarian organization because of its flexibility and ease of use. It was able to handle the complex problems and give robust results. Also, anyLogistix enabled the TLI–AP research team to uncover a deeper level of detail in their supply chain model to address limitations unseen at the strategic level. The project began by designing a baseline network through an ad-hoc decision support framework, which fully leveraged operational research techniques. This preliminary assignment allowed the TLI–AP team to select a pool of nine potential nodes (out of the initially suggested twenty-two) which satisfied both base criteria of low exposure to natural hazards and high accessibility to supporting logistics infrastructures, such as airports and ports. Using anyLogistix, the TLI–AP research team then defined the optimal configuration for a supply network with the selection of the six most appropriate locations and optimal flows across the nodes. Eleven large scale humanitarian emergencies, ninety-eight small/medium scale disasters, along with thirty-four risk exposed areas were accurately modeled and tested. The team then ran optimizations on each scenario to identify the best supply chain configuration in terms of response time, risk exposure, and logistics costs.
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