TY - JOUR
T1 - Vendor managed inventory for environments with stochastic product usage
AU - Hemmelmayr, Vera
AU - Doerner, Karl F.
AU - Hartl, Richard F.
AU - Savelsbergh, Martin W.P.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We develop technology to plan delivery routes for the supply of blood products to hospitals by a blood bank. The technology produces low cost, robust plans that hedge against the natural uncertainty associated with blood product usage at hospitals. The technology relies on sampling-based approaches involving integer programming and variable neighborhood search. An extensive computational study shows the efficacy of the two approaches and highlights the impact of product usage uncertainty on the resulting delivery plans.
AB - We develop technology to plan delivery routes for the supply of blood products to hospitals by a blood bank. The technology produces low cost, robust plans that hedge against the natural uncertainty associated with blood product usage at hospitals. The technology relies on sampling-based approaches involving integer programming and variable neighborhood search. An extensive computational study shows the efficacy of the two approaches and highlights the impact of product usage uncertainty on the resulting delivery plans.
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037722170900424X
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2009.06.003
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2009.06.003
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0377-2217
VL - 202
SP - 686
EP - 695
JO - European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)
JF - European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR)
IS - 3
ER -