The patient care processes in hospitals are supported by a range of operational activities
including inventory management and distribution of supplies to point-of-care locations …

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 …

Purpose Inventory management systems in health-care supply chains (HCSC) have been
pushed to breaking point by the COVID-19 pandemic. Unanticipated demand shocks due to …

In this paper, a bi-objective mixed-integer linear programming model is formulated for
designing a perishable pharmaceutical supply chain network under demand uncertainty …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze the perishable inventory models
along various dimensions such as its evolution, scope, demand, shelf life, replenishment …

This research evaluates reconfiguration opportunities in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains
(PSC) resulting from technology interventions in manufacturing, and new, more patient …

Logistics costs are the second largest cost for hospitals, so effectively managing the hospital
material supply chain provides significant opportunities for improvement. In order to optimise …

Both public and private hospitals are increasingly under pressure to reduce costs while
improving patient care across all medical disciplines and departments. Hospitals must …

Leftover/end of life (EOL) medications not only cause financial losses for the pharmacy but
also lead to disposal costs and high governmental penalties for the pharmaceutical supplier …

In this paper, the optimal replenishment policies of capacitated supply chains (SC) operating
under two different control strategies (decentralized vs. centralized) and various demands …