Managing blood inventory with multiple independent sources of supply

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• 作者：Kartikeya Puranam^a ; ^{kartys.here@gmail.com} ; David C. Novak ; ^b ; ^{dnovak@bsad.uvm.edu} ; Marilyn T. Lucas^b ; ^{mlucas@bsad.uvm.edu} ; Mark Fung^c ; ^{Mark.Fung@uvm.edu}
• 关键词：Inventory ; Blood management ; Perishable products ; Dynamic programming ; Stochastic supply
• 刊名：European Journal of Operational Research
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：1 June 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：259
• 期：2
• 页码：500-511
• 全文大小：1362 K
• 卷排序：259

文摘

We provide a novel theoretical contribution to the perishable inventory literature. We consider multiple independent sources of supply for the perishable inventory model. We validate and test our model using actual data from a large medical center. We demonstrate that our solution approach outperforms other well-established order policies.