- Title
- Delivery strategies for blood products supplies
- Creator
- Hemmelmayr, Vera; Doerner, Karl F.; Hartl, Richard F.; Savelsbergh, Martin W. P.
- Relation
- OR Spectrum Vol. 31, Issue 4, p. 707-725
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00291-008-0134-7
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- 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.
- Subject
- variable neighborhood search; inventory routing; fixed routes; blood delivery
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/937777
- Identifier
- uon:12617
- Identifier
- ISSN:0171-6468
- Language
- eng
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