Sustainable Supply Chain Management of COVID-19 Vaccines for Vaccination Delivery based on Routing Algorithms

Q3 Economics, Econometrics and Finance

WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics Pub Date : 2023-11-17 DOI:10.37394/23207.2023.20.221

Theodoros Anagnostopoulos, Michail Ploumis, Alkinoos Psarras, Faidon Komisopoulos, Ioannis Salmon, K. Ntalianis, S. R. J. Ramson

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Abstract

Covid-19 pandemic has changed daily life in the city of Athens where vaccines are exploited with supply chain technology potentiality. Vaccines are tracked at the city’s airport till their delivery to vaccination centers. Due to the sensitivity of vaccines to the warm climate inherent in the city, delivery is assigned to a fleet of trucks. Specifically, two use cases, i.e., UC-I and UC-II, are proposed, which are based on global and local routing algorithms to exploit trucks’ load COVID-19 vaccine delivery from the airport and transport it to vaccination centers. In this paper, we focus on the supply chain routing algorithm technology of collecting COVID-19 vaccines from the airport and delivering them to vaccination centers in the smart city of Athens, Greece. Concretely, the purpose and the objectives of the research effort are in the areas of: (1) describing in deep detail the proposed supply chain system, (2) exploiting the adopted architecture based on certain separate use cases for system experimentation, (3) adopting specific vaccination routing algorithms to support vaccination distribution, and (4) evaluating experimentally the proposed supply chain system architecture with regards to the adopted use cases’ routing algorithms.

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基于路由算法的 COVID-19 疫苗接种配送可持续供应链管理

Covid-19 大流行改变了雅典市的日常生活，该市的疫苗利用了供应链技术的潜力。疫苗在雅典机场被跟踪，直到运送到疫苗接种中心。由于疫苗对该市固有的温暖气候非常敏感，运送工作由卡车车队负责。具体来说，我们提出了两个使用案例，即 UC-I 和 UC-II，它们基于全局和局部路由算法，利用卡车从机场装载 COVID-19 疫苗并运送到疫苗接种中心。在本文中，我们将重点讨论从机场收集 COVID-19 疫苗并将其运送到希腊雅典智能城市疫苗接种中心的供应链路由算法技术。具体来说，研究工作的目的和目标包括以下几个方面：(1) 深入详细地描述拟议的供应链系统，(2) 利用基于某些独立用例的采用架构进行系统实验，(3) 采用特定的疫苗接种路由算法来支持疫苗接种分配，以及 (4) 根据采用的用例路由算法对拟议的供应链系统架构进行实验评估。

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WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics Economics, Econometrics and Finance-Economics and Econometrics

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