… In Section 3 and Section 4, we present the features that characterize the optimization models
for planning the blood supply chain at a strategic and tactical planning level, respectively. …

… Firstly, we include papers that consider quantitative models for any stage of the blood supply
chain. Secondly, papers from other knowledge areas such as perishable inventory and multi…

… inventory system in a typical UK hospital supplied by a regional blood centre. The … modelling
the entire supply chain for that hospital, from donor to recipient. The supply chain of blood …

… the previous quantitative models; (ii) line up the previous relevant quantitative models with
the … Section 6 explores the previous models capturing insights on sustainability pillars, and …

… Decisions about the design supply of the blood supply chain must meet numerous
practical and regulatory constraints. The model proposed in this paper contains the following …

… blood supply chain by drastically reducing blood donation. Therefore, developing models to
design effective blood supply chains … for an emergency blood supply chain network design …

… is to improve blood supply chain management in order to use the scarce resource of blood
more … The blood supply system model depicted in Figure 1 shows the arrangement of the …

… quantitative models that study different aspects of the blood supply chain, and … model to
support strategic and operational decisions in production planning in the blood supply chain…

… problem considering the m/m/m/k queue model in the blood supply chain network. This …
theory, the current study proposes a novel model for improving the supply chain of blood. …

… This paper develops a novel simulation model that acts as a … platelet supply chain. A
multi-method approach is delineated upon that combines agent-based and discrete event modelling …