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<p>Every year, natural disasters affect millions of people around the world. Natural disasters  are an unavoidable part of our lives, but effective disaster management increases the  number of survivors and helps the victims. After disaster hits, the most important job is  enabling an effective response operation. This operation involves many logistics  activities and some special demand for relief goods. Today, supply chain management  increases the effectiveness of logistics activities for many companies. The same thinking  and modeling may help increase the effectiveness of response operations. An important  milestone for this achievement is to be able to evaluate the performance of response  operations in system thinking. In this project, we introduced three theoretical  performance metrics: demand and supply equilibrium, transportation utilization, and  information sharing, which help analyze the performance of overall response operations.  We chose three different types of natural disasters: Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Asian  Tsunami, and the 2010 Haiti Earthquake to show the usefulness and applicability of these  metrics. Unavailability of data associated with logistics operations made a thorough  analysis impossible, but we assessed each disaster according to our metrics. The last part  of this project focuses on the managerial implications of response operations considering  these three metrics.
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<br>Subjects: Business logistics.; Disaster Management; Response Phase; humanitarian supply chains; disaster logistics networks; 2004 Asian Tsunami; Hurricane Katrina; Haiti Earthquake; humanitarian logistics; Relief Activities; Basic Need in natural disasters;</div>
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<dl><dd>Gursoy, Ilyas Emre</dd>
<dd>Onder, Osman</dd>
<dd>Brahim, Mohamed Tahar</dd></dl></div>
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