This paper presents a review of the literature on inventory and supply chain management of
blood products. First, we identify different perspectives on approaches to classifying the …

Although blood suppliers are seeing short-term reductions in blood demand as a result of
initiatives in patient blood management, modelling suggests that during the next 5–10 years …

Major challenges in the management of the blood supply chain are related to the shortage
and wastage of the blood products. Given the perishable characteristics of this product …

The European Working Group “Operational Research Applied to Health Services”(ORAHS)
is one of the domain specific EURO Working Groups organized by EURO–the European …

A simulation optimization framework is proposed for supply chain inventory management of
highly perishable products. A new replenishment policy based on old inventory ratio is …

Perishability of blood products and uncertainty in donation and demand sizes complicate the
blood supply chain planning. This paper presents a novel bi-objective mixed-integer model …

This paper presents a multi-stage stochastic optimization model to minimize total cost under
centralized control for a multi-echelon platelet supply chain which takes into account …

Every day, a blood center must determine a set of locations among a group of potential sites
to route their vehicles for blood collection so as to avoid shortfalls. In this study, a vehicle …

Platelet supply chain (PLT SC) management is always a challenging task for healthcare
systems due to the nature of platelets (PLTs). PLTs have an extremely short shelf life and …

This paper focuses on the management of red blood cells (RBCs) by a large medical center
within a regional blood exchange network. We provide both a theoretical and managerial …