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

Abstract Blood Supply Chain (BSC) is a challenging subset of the healthcare industry. It
treats the blood flow from donor to patient guaranteeing the patient's needs. Considering the …

Managing inventories in the blood supply chain is a challenging task, mainly due to the
uncertain nature of the demand for blood units, the perishable nature of the blood, and a …

This study examines the challenges of healthcare systems toward sustainable inventory
management of blood products. In this regard, three main goals are pursued; First …

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 …

Supply and demand uncertainties combined with very short lifetime of blood platelets has
led to significant wastage of the total blood collected from the donors. Conversely, great …

Existing literature in humanitarian aid supply chain management has not examined the
impacts of disruption on timely and cost-efficient delivery of perishable products during …

Emergency supply of blood in disasters is a crucial task for humanitarian aid. In this paper,
we present a bi-objective robust optimization model for the design of blood supply chains …

This paper presents a two-stage stochastic programming problem for red blood cells that
simultaneously considers production, inventory and location decisions. In the first stage, the …

Practical constrained optimization models are often large, and solving them in a reasonable
time is a challenge in many applications. Further, many industries have limited access to …