Research On The Construction Of Emergency Logistics Management System For Natural Disasters

Emergency logistics (EL) is the essential content for natural disaster relief management, and the Natural Disasters Emergency Logistics Management System (NDELMS) is the comprehensive system established to achieve the objectives of effective organization and ensuring emergency supplies, personnel and funding under the environment of sudden natural disasters. Natural disasters happened globally and frequently in recent years not only call for a timely and effective NDELMS, but also bring unpredictable operational risk, and test the operation capability of NDELMS. At present, both from a strategic or technical level, the scarcity of scientific, systematic, efficient and economical ELMS is worrying the China government to support the operation of emergency management system. From the literature review of domestic and international, the study of ELMS has not started yet, but the research on the EL has attracted attention gradually. So it's great significance practically and theoretically to study the issue of how to establish the ELMS.Based on investigation and analysis on EL management characteristics of several serious natural disasters in China in recent years, according to the theories of Management Science, Disaster Science, Logistics Management Science, and Early Warning Management Science, this dissertation analyzed the construction of NDELMS, including the reasons of constructing ELMS, the integrated framework of ELMS, the integration and coordination logistics mechanism by classification, grades and stages of natural disasters, the evaluation on operational risk of ELMS, the evaluation on operating capability of ELMS, the establishment of EL early-warning system, the system framework of EL public information platform, the improvement of ELMS construction, and so on.The conclusions and innovation of the dissertation are shown as follows:(1) Analyzed the reasons of constructing ELMS. Compared to the ELM of USA, Japan and Germany, we could find that a modern standard operated ELMS wasn't established in China, and the existed questions were found, further, the focus of future work were confirmed. (2) Systematically studied on the structure and operating mechanism of ELMS. This dissertation put forward the concept and elements frame of ELMS. ELMS is a kind of special logistics management system, which responds and to satisfy the material demand to natural disasters, aiming at maximized time benefits and minimized disaster losses, and consisting of some interrelated fators, such as organization system, operating mechanism, operation system, resources supporting system, and legal plans systems. This broke existing literature on ELS, and with a more macro view to study this field.(3) Preliminary raised the logistics management organization by classification, grades and stages of natural disasters, and the integration-coordination mechanism to them, including the object and route of classification management, the On-demand model for the flow and traffic of Natural Disasters Emergency Logistics, the Life Cycle of Emergency Logistics. This dissertation also probed the dynamic fuzzy classification algorithm to quantitative research on how to grade-to-grade and stage-to-stage management in NDELMS.(4) Established an operational evaluation model and method for operational risk and operating capability of NDELMS. The relationship between the operational risk and operating capability of NDELMS, and the significance of evaluation were discussed. A concept was raised, that early-warning management would monitor, forewarning and intervene the occurrence of operational risk and the fluctuation of operating capability. This dissertation built a designed an evaluation indicators sytem for operational risk and operation capability of ELMS, and supplied the Fuzzy Comprehensive Evaluation methods.(5) Research on the establishment of EL early-warning system, the system framework of EL public information platform, and the improvement countermeasures for ELMS establishment, such as to reflect socialization support, to enhance professional capacity, and to try market operation..