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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Noche Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften Abteilung Maschinenbau Transportsysteme und -logistik Keetmanstraße 3-9 47058 Duisburg Phon: 0203 379-2785 Fax: 0203 379-3048 E-Mail: [email protected] A Systemic Approach to Sustainable Humanitarian Logistics 3 rd International HumLog Workshop Essen 2013 M. Sc. Aimen Remida
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Noche
Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften Abteilung Maschinenbau
Transportsysteme und -logistik Keetmanstraße 3-9
47058 Duisburg
Phon: 0203 379-2785 Fax: 0203 379-3048 E-Mail: [email protected]
A Systemic Approach to Sustainable Humanitarian Logistics
3rd International HumLog Workshop Essen 2013
M. Sc. Aimen Remida
Agenda
The system thinking paradigm Historical and methodological insights
Managing complexity Analytic vs. Systemic approaches
Applicability to (HL)
Sustainable Humanitarian Logistics Systems (SHLS) A polycontextual environment
The Triple-Bottom-Line (TBL) as a demarcation framework Some characteristics of (SHLS)
Basic principles of the systemic approach
Transdisciplinarity The dialectical view
Transcending the analogy
System Thinking Paradigm
General System Theory Cybernetics
A General System s Configuration
System Environment
Subsystem 2 Subsystem 1 Element
Complex Disasters
Natural Man-made
Sudden-onset Slow-onset
Fukushima
Darfur
Reduction vs. Absorption
Responses to Complexity
Complexity Reduction Complexity Absorption
Interaction Complexity
Structural Complexity
Goal Complexity
Strategic Complexity
Codification
Abstraction
Cognitive Complexity Rational Complexity
Analytic vs. Systemic
Static vision (simple systems) Dynamic vision (complex systems)
Solid Fluid
Force Flow
Closed systems Open systems
Linear causality Circular causality
Force equilibrium Flow equilibrium
Applicability to (HL)
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS)
System Dynamics (SD)
Jay Forrester (MIT), 1950s Examples: Gonçalves (2011) Heaslip, Sharif and Althonayan (2012) Besiou, Stapleton and Van Vassenhoven (2010)
Feedback loops Stocks & Flows
Sustainable Humanitarian Logistics Systems (SHLS)
A polycontextual environment
Interpretations of Sustainable Development
Technological Advances in Logistics
Economic and Geopolitical Conjunctures
Ethics Fuzziness Confusion
Reductionism
ICT Engines
Automation Handling Equipment
Urbanization Demography Social media
Crisis / Conflicts
Triple-Bottom-Line
Environmental
Social
Economic
People
Profit Planet
Ecological-economic Ecological-social Economic-social
Response ……… Mitigation ……… Prevention
Social
Environmental
Economic
Strategic Level
Tactical Level
Operational Level
Planning & Scheduling
Warehousing & Storage
Information & communication ……… Vehicle Fleet
Management
Sustainability Requirements
Humanitarian Aid & Development
Logistics Systems
Levels and Interconnections in (SHLS)
Short Medium Long Term
LOCAL
REGIONAL
GLOBAL
Space, Time & Stakeholders
Stakeholders, Goals & Strategies
International Organizations
Humanitarian Agencies
Logistics Service
Providers Multinational Corporations
Governments
Civil Society
Universities
Beneficiaries: affected populations, future generations ?
Stakeholders as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
Basic Principles of the Systemic Approach (1/3)
Transdisciplinarity
Multidisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity
Transdisciplinarity
Involved Disciplines
Logistics Politics Sociology Computer
Science
Economics
Psychology Biology
Physics
Humanities Natural sciences
Management Engineering
System Thinking
Basic Principles of the Systemic Approach (2/3)
Dialectical View
Speed vs. Cost Public vs. Private
Permanent vs. Temporary (networks) Vertical vs. Horizontal (coordination)
Centralized vs. Decentralized (structures) Immediateness of reaction vs. Durability of the effects
Basic Principles of the Systemic Approach (3/3)
Transcending Analogy
Supply Chain Military Operations
Agility
Globalism
Greenness
Synergies
CIMIC (Civil-Military- Coordination)
Systems & Subsystems
(HL) Systems Functions Eventual Related Subsystems
Transport logistics Freight and passenger transportation Intermodal supply chains
Distribution logistics Last mile logistics operations Permanent hub and spoke networks
Procurement logistics
Availability and management of physical donations Recycling of urban waste
Information logistics
Transparency, accessibility and circulation of data
Tracking & Tracing tools Cloud computing
Warehousing Storage of relief items Inventory management Ergonomic handling equipment
Illustration
Conclusion
Economic, social and environmental goals
Complexity, Complex Disasters
Enlargement of spatio-temporal contexts
Various Stakeholders, Strategies, Methods
Transdiciplinarity Dialectics Analogy +
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