This paper is published in Volume-7, Issue-5, 2021
Area
Operations Research
Author
Svanika Shetty, Swarangee Patel, Udit Batra, Ujjwal Goenka
Org/Univ
Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Anil Surendra Modi School of Commerce, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Pub. Date
11 October, 2021
Paper ID
V7I5-1338
Publisher
Keywords
COVID-19, Vaccination, Vaccination Supply, Operations Research, Transportation Problem.

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Svanika Shetty, Swarangee Patel, Udit Batra, Ujjwal Goenka. Recommendations for an effective vaccination supply in India using Operations Research tools., International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.

APA
Svanika Shetty, Swarangee Patel, Udit Batra, Ujjwal Goenka (2021). Recommendations for an effective vaccination supply in India using Operations Research tools.. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 7(5) www.IJARIIT.com.

MLA
Svanika Shetty, Swarangee Patel, Udit Batra, Ujjwal Goenka. "Recommendations for an effective vaccination supply in India using Operations Research tools.." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 7.5 (2021). www.IJARIIT.com.

Abstract

In many ways, COVID-19 affected people from all economic categories. Many endured a company loss and a huge money crunch lost employment and lost loved ones. Amid this chaos, science gave a ray of hope with an aim to ease the impact of the pandemic if not completely eradicate it, in the form of vaccines. The vaccines were publicly made accessible and were also approved by the World Health Organization. However, there was still a problem that people faced, accessibility of the vaccines. Which was also attempted to be solved by the Government by allowing the conduct of local vaccination drives in communities. The paper aims at proposing a transportation problem as an effective Operations Research tool that can be incorporated to optimally allocate the available resources. A locality has been taken into consideration wherein an illustration has been formulated showing different buildings demanding vaccines from different hospitals and the transportation problem enables effective selection of hospitals for buildings. Through our paper, we intend to provide a solution to the vaccination problem prevalent in India. The aim is to use transportation problems to ensure that the supply chain is not disrupted and people are provided vaccines through the most optimal route to ensure that resources are not wasted.