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Modeling the values of private sector agents in multi-echelon humanitarian supply chains

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posted on 2018-04-06, 09:04 authored by Corinne Carland, Jarrod Goentzel, Gilberto MontibellerGilberto Montibeller
© 2018 Elsevier B.V. Humanitarian organizations (HOs) increasingly look to engage private sector supply chains in achieving outcomes. The right engagement approach may require knowledge of agents' preferences across multi-echelon supply chains to align private sector value creation with humanitarian outcomes. We propose a multi-attribute value analysis (MAVA) framework to elucidate such preferences. We formalize this approach and apply it in collaboration with a HO pilot aiming to facilitate better private sector availability of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Uganda. We demonstrate how HOs could use criteria weights and value functions from MAVA for project evaluation; in the process, we reveal business model insights for importers, distributors, and retailers in the pilot. We also show how MAVA facilitates the impact assessment of hypothetical options (i.e., combinations of products, services, and subsidies) to guide HO resource deployment. This paper offers the first attempt, to our knowledge, to develop quantitative measures for economic and non-economic objectives involving all agents in a multi-echelon supply chain, either humanitarian or commercial. We hope that this initial step stimulates further research to validate results and develop the framework proposed.

Funding

This material is based on work conducted with the Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) under award number AID-OAA-A-12-00095.

History

School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

European Journal of Operational Research

Volume

269

Issue

2

Pages

532-543

Citation

CARLAND, C., GOENTZEL, J. and MONTIBELLER, G., 2018. Modeling the values of private sector agents in multi-echelon humanitarian supply chains. European Journal of Operational Research, 269 (2), pp.532-543.

Publisher

© Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Dalton Transactions and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.02.010

Acceptance date

2018-02-06

Publication date

2018-02-09

Copyright date

2018

ISSN

0377-2217

Language

  • en