Delivery strategies for blood products supplies

Delivery strategies for blood products supplies

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Article ID: iaor200971597
Country: Germany
Volume: 31
Issue: 4
Start Page Number: 707
End Page Number: 725
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Journal: OR Spectrum
Authors: , , ,
Keywords: distribution, programming: integer, inventory
Abstract:

We introduce a problem faced by the blood bank of the Austrian Red Cross for Eastern Austria: how to cost-effectively organize the delivery of blood products to Austrian hospitals? We investigate the potential value of switching from the current vendee-managed inventory set up to a vendor-managed inventory system. We present solution approaches based on integer programming and variable neighborhood search and evaluate their performance.

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