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A fair and accurate distribution of emergency supplies during an epidemic is vital for improving emergency rescue efficiency and reducing economic losses. However, traditional emergency material allocation models often focus on meeting the amount of materials requested, and ignore the differences in the importance of different emergency materials and the subjective urgency demand of the disaster victims. As a result, it is difficult for the system to fairly and reasonably match different scarce materials to the corresponding areas of greatest need. Consequently, this paper proposes a material shortage adjustment coefficient based on the entropy weight method, which includes indicators such as material consumption rate, material reproduction rate, durability, degree of danger to life, and degree of irreplaceability, to enlarge and narrow the actual shortage of material supply according to the demand urgency. Due to the fact that emergency materials are not dispatched in one go during epidemic periods, a multi-period integer programming model was established to minimize the adjusted total material shortage based on the above function. Taking the cases of Wuhan and Shanghai during the lockdown and static management period, the quantitative analysis based on material distribution reflected that the model established in this paper was effective in different scenarios where there were significant differences in the quantity and structure of material demand. At the same time, the model could significantly adjust the shortage of emergency materials with higher importance and improve the satisfaction rate.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems11060303","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,14]],"date-time":"2023-06-14T02:01:40Z","timestamp":1686708100000},"page":"303","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Dynamic Optimization of Emergency Logistics for Major Epidemic Considering Demand Urgency"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Jianjun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China"}]},{"given":"Jingru","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China"}]},{"given":"Tianhao","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China"}]},{"given":"Jin","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Sino-German College of Applied Science, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Jiang, P., Wang, Y., Liu, C., Hu, Y.-C., and Xie, J. 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