Design of a logistic system for a station of the Lebanese red cross

The Lebanese Red Cross (LRC) plays a vital role in supplying the country with emergency medical services. To be able to fulfill this role, it is important that all aspects of its logistics system, including order processing, inventory management, and warehouse management, be well designed to meet the emergency needs of the community it serves.

This project is about the design of the logistics system of the LRC, Kornet Chehwan station. More specifically, the project involves:

• Identifying and forecasting the station’s need of medical supplies over different time periods and states (e.g., disaster, war, explosion, pandemic, etc.)
• Evaluating the existing system including storage facility, medical supplies, fleet size, and other resources
• Optimizing the order processing and the inventory management of medical supplies to meet demand under normal conditions and avoid stockouts or shortages
• Designing the warehouse layout and the storage requirements
• Creating a system (database and decision support tool) that will assist the head of station in managing the inventory and allocating supplies to ambulances that meets the demand while minimizing waste/loss in medical supplies.

Students are encouraged to explore the use of technology and IoT to enhance monitoring and controlling the stock of medical supplies and automate the storage/retrieval operations in the warehouse.

The project should also evaluate the readiness of the station design in accommodating demand under crisis such as in the case of natural disaster, explosion, war, etc.

A cost benefit analysis should be conducted to evaluate the proposed solution and the benefits from the use of new technology.

Project Details

• Student(s): Project 1: Nour El Chaar (INE), Jad Njeim (INE), Alfred El Khoury (INE)
  Project 2: Alain Nehme (INE), Lucien Accad (INE), Joseph Chamoun (INE), Maria Saad (INE)
• Advisor(s): Dr. Pierrette Zouein
• Year: 2024-2025