Blood and blood banks play an essential role in patient care. This study proposes a novel
mathematical model for Blood Supply Chains (BSCs), which minimizes the total costs and …

The management and supply of blood are critical yet considered a challenging exercise
within the healthcare industry. The inventory managers within the sector concerned with …

The blood supply chain is an inseparable part of health systems. The importance of blood
and the difficulties of managing the blood supply chain have led to numerous publications …

This paper presents a multi-stage stochastic optimization model to minimize total cost under
centralized control for a multi-echelon platelet supply chain which takes into account …

This paper presents a two-stage hybrid robust programming model that integrates multiple
blood products scheduling and multiple casualty types evacuation under facility disruptions …

Efficient planning is necessary to coordinate and match supply and demand in blood
networks, which can help to prevent wastage and shortage caused by unpredictable supply …

Abstract Machine learning (ML) has attracted recent attention in solving constrained
optimization problems to reduce computational time. In this article, we employ multi-output …

Uncertainty in blood supply and demand has proven to be a massive barrier to developing
an efficient blood supply chain system. Recent literature has observed blood units' profligacy …

The COVID-19 pandemic causes a severe threat to human lives worldwide. Convalescent
plasma as supportive care for COVID-19 is critical in reducing the death rate and staying in …

Purpose Blood availability is critical for saving lives in various healthcare services. Ensuring
blood availability can only be achieved through efficient management of the blood supply …