Blood inventory management in hospitals: Considering supply and demand uncertainty and blood transshipment possibility

This study will account for the fact that blood demand and supply are uncertain, and blood transshipment is possible. The proposed model considers the substitution relations among various blood types in the blood transfusion process to minimize blood shortage and wastage. Since the proposed model contains uncertain parameters, the use of chance constraint programming creates a deterministic counterpart. The deterministic model is then adapted to include approximations to remove non-linearity. Finally, a numerical experiment is designed to exhibit the model’s results and analyze the influence of different parameters on blood inventory management.
Source: Operations Research for Health Care - Category: Hospital Management Source Type: research