A Review of Human Judgment in Stock Control System for Disaster Logistics

摘要

Logistics is the most crucial aspect in supply demand activities. This aspect become more important in unexpected situation such as in disaster condition. There are a tremendous amount of disaster logistics literatures. However, only limited of them discussed how judgmental adjustment is incorporated in disaster logistics. This research aims to evaluate this issue by doing a critical literature review of academic literatures. The analysis will be focused on inventory system as the part of logistic. In the context of warehouse, judgmental adjustment in term of demand classification, forecasting, and stock control of the item(s) is reviewed. The findings demonstrate that there are very lack studies discussed these terms. Furthermore, there is still no guidance and policy on how human intervene the decision in managing the warehouse in disaster logistic. This preliminary research suggests that there is a huge scope for contributing and further advancing the current stage of knowledge in the area of disaster logistics.