Logistics costs are the second largest cost for hospitals, so effectively managing the hospital
material supply chain provides significant opportunities for improvement. In order to optimise …

The inventory routing problem arises when inventory management and vehicle routing
decisions are integrated instead of treated as separate problems. The technique of …

Recently, supply chain network design has been a demanding question and attracted great
interest in a wide range of fields, including the medical industry. The heart of the entire …

Inventory routing problem (IRP), which plays an important role in implementing vendor-
managed-inventory strategy, is to determine the optimal timing and quantity of products to be …

We study blood supply network optimization considering disasters where only a small
number of historical observations exist. A two-stage distributionally robust optimization …

Blood shortage may lead to immeasurable losses. But the perishable nature of blood
products limits the possibility of storing a large amount of it, and the quality of blood products …

Supply and distribution management of blood products is a challenging task due to their
short lifespan. The problem is even more sophisticated considering uncertain demand for …

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 …

Abstract Inventory Routing Problem is a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem that consists
of interrelated vehicle routing and inventory decisions. There is a growing interest in …

Medical drug shortages are an important issue in health care, since they can significantly
affect patients' health. Thus, selecting the appropriate distribution and inventory policies …