Background: This study presents a comprehensive methodology for enhancing humanitarian logistics planning and management in natural disasters, focusing on earthquakes. Methods: The innovative approach combines a deterministic mathematical model with a simulation model to address the problem from...

This study addresses a two-echelon network design problem that determines the location and size of new warehouses, the removal of company-owned warehouses, the inventory levels of multiple products at the warehouses, and the assignment of suppliers as well as customers to warehouses over a...