In this paper, a blood supply chain network (BSCN) is designed to reduce the total cost of
the supply chain network under demand and transportation costs. The network levels …

Nowadays, designing a reliable network for blood supply chains by which most blood
demands can be supplied is an important problem in the health care systems. In this paper …

Background Natural disasters and pandemics can be highly challenging to blood supply
chains. This review aimed to assess the impacts of pandemics and natural disasters on …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to systematically review the existing literature on the
blood supply chain (BSC) from a network design perspective and highlight the research …

Managing blood and its sub-products is one of the challenging problems in healthcare
management, where the managers attempt to solve them by designing appropriate supply …

Purpose This study aims to minimize the cost and time of blood delivery in the whole blood
supply chain network (BSCN) in disaster conditions. In other words, integrating all strategic …

The level of blood and blood products in the human body is very important. Lack of blood
and its products in a body can have a deadly effect on health. Due to the explanation …

Ensuring an adequate and healthy blood supply is a persistent challenge faced by
healthcare systems worldwide. The need for blood donors and its products is constant, while …

Supply chain risk management is a preventive approach to risk management in the supply
chain to avoid possible unex-pected consequences and to manage the blood supply chain …

This paper discusses the development of an optimization model involving four echelons:
donor, blood center, blood mobile and hospital. The blood collection can be done at the …