H Fleuren

A robust approach to food aid supply chains

  • Danique de Moor
  • Dick den Hertog
  • H Fleuren
  • Robert Poos
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Robust Optimization Tags , , , ,

    One of the great challenges in reaching zero hunger is to secure the availability of sufficient nourishment in the worst of times such as humanitarian emergencies. Food aid operations during a humanitarian emergency are typically subject to a high level of uncertainty. In this paper, we develop a novel robust optimization model for food aid … Read more

    The Nutritious Supply Chain: Optimizing Humanitarian Food Aid

  • Dick den Hertog
  • Ozlem Ergun
  • R Goncalves
  • K Peters
  • H Fleuren
  • M Freeman
  • M Kavelj
  • S Silva
    • Categories Supply Chain Management

    The World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide, reaching around 90 million people with food assistance in 80 countries each year. To deal with the operational complexities inherent in its mandate, WFP has been developing tools to assist its decision makers with integrating supply chain decisions across departments and functional … Read more