Inventory management in a healthcare system needs to be compatible with its operations
and critical characteristics ensuring minimization of inventory-related cost as well as …

Operating rooms are considered a significant revenue source, as well as the main source of
waste and cost, among the hospital's departments. Any cost savings in operating rooms will …

This study develops intelligent inventory management (IIM) approaches for managing
perishable pharmaceutical products in a healthcare supply chain consisting of multiple …

In this paper, a simulation-optimization approach based on the stochastic counterpart or
sample path method is used for optimizing tactical and operative decisions in the …

In this study, we deal with the inventory management system of perishable products under
the random demand and deterministic lead time in order to minimize the total cost of a …

Recently, most healthcare organizations focus their attention on reducing the cost of their
supply chain management (SCM) by improving the decision making pertaining processes' …

Background Resource allocation in patient care relies heavily on individual judgements of
healthcare professionals. Such professionals perform coordinating functions by managing …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate vendor managed inventory (VMI) for the
supply of medicines between distributors and hospitals to identify factors that may affect VMI …

This paper attempts to gain a better understanding on the main issues affecting the
management of medicines in hospitals by defining and analyzing the main logistics …

Background: The concept of supply chain management is to coordinate and collaborate
among supply chain players in order to achieve system efficiency. Supply chain coordination …