Browsing by Author "Lowalekar, Harshal"
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Analysis of an order-up-to-level policy for perishables with random issuing
Ravichandran, N.; Lowalekar, Harshal; Nilakantan, Rahul (Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2016)Much of the research in perishable items inventory management has focused on the first-in-first-out issue process. However, motivated by the technical characteristics of the blood unit issue process, we model an order-up-to-level ... -
A combined age-and-stock-based policy for ordering blood units in hospital blood banks
Ravichandran, N.; Lowalekar, Harshal (International Transactions in Operational Research, 2015)This paper analyses the performance of an ordering policy for hospital blood banks (HBBs) that takes into account the information regarding the on-hand stock along with the remaining life of blood products. The blood items ... -
Integrated model for blood bank operations
Lowalekar, Harshal (2010)This research provides a new approach to blood bank administrators for managing the complex blood bank inventory system. Our method primarily involves identifying and analyzing significant sub-problems in the context of ... -
Inventory management in blood banks
Lowalekar, Harshal; Ravichandran, N. (Springer Science, 2015)