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 …

The management of the blood supply chain is considered of vital importance. The
unavailability of blood may cause deaths and complications for patients. Conversely …

Disaster medical rescue in China mainly adopts the “on‐site rescue” model. Whether the
location of emergency temporary blood supply sites is reasonable or not directly affects the …

The main objective when managing inventories in blood supply chains is to establish an
efficient balance between the wastage and shortage of blood units. The uncertain demand …

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 …

Blood service operations are a key component of the healthcare system all over the world
and yet the modeling and the analysis of such systems from a complete supply chain …

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 …

The main purpose of this article is to develop a meta-analysis about the relationships and
potential perspectives of modeling and simulation in supply chains. The research …

Despite significant advancements in medicine, human blood is still a scarce resource. Only
humans produce it, and there is currently no other product or alternative chemical process …