Delivery strategies for blood products supplies.

Vera Hemmelmayr, Karl F. Doerner, Richard F. Hartl, Martin W.P. Savelsbergh

Publikation: Wissenschaftliche FachzeitschriftOriginalbeitrag in FachzeitschriftBegutachtung

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.
OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)707 - 725
FachzeitschriftOR Spectrum
Jahrgang31
Ausgabenummer4
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Dez. 2009

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