In recent years, there has been significant interest in developing system dynamics
simulation models to analyze complex healthcare problems. However, there is a lack of …

Hospital material management has been identified as one key cost containment lever to
cope with steadily increasing healthcare costs in industrialized countries. The purpose of …

Operating rooms are considered a significant revenue source, as well as the main source of
waste and cost, among the hospital's departments. Any cost savings in operating rooms will …

Purpose This paper aims to review the healthcare supply chain (HSC) literature along
various areas and to find out the gap in it. Design/methodology/approach In total, 143 …

Abstract The field of “Sustainable Operations” and the term itself have arisen only in the last
ten to twenty years in the context of sustainable development. Even though the term is …

Background Numerous studies examine simulation modelling in healthcare. These studies
present a bewildering array of simulation techniques and applications, making it challenging …

Healthcare has material-centric external and patient-centric internal logistics. Researchers
widely use simulation approaches to model healthcare internal logistics due to the problem …

Background Operations research (OR) is a discipline that uses advanced analytical methods
(eg simulation, optimisation, decision analysis) to better understand complex systems and …

Distributed Simulation (DS) allows existing models to be composed together to form
simulations of large-scale systems, or large models to be divided into models that execute …

The management of inventories and distribution networks of medical supplies are among
the most important issues in the healthcare world. Indeed, medicine shortage cannot only …