Affiliations: Department of Industrial Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, Besiktas-Istanbul, Turkey | Department of Industrial Engineering, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Note: [] Corresponding author. Alev Taskin Gumus, Department of Industrial Engineering, Yildiz Technical University, 34349 Besiktas-Istanbul, Turkey. Tel.: +90 212 383 2898; Fax: +90 212 258 5928; E-mail: ataskin@yildiz.edu.tr
Abstract: Disaster and humanitarian logistics are one of the most important subjects for a country to take care about. It is possible to increase the performance of humanitarian relief logistics management processes by several planning and prevention activities. This paper's main contribution is identifying and then evaluating the success factors which are critical for effective management of humanitarian relief logistics operations. Therefore, an effective method that combines type-2 fuzzy sets, which provide additional degrees of freedom to present the uncertainty and the fuzziness of the real world, and analytic hierarchy process, is proposed to sustain a realistic evaluation. It is aimed that, the proposed method will be used by governmental and non-governmental organizations to improve their HRLM activities and strategies.
