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A combined age-and-stock-based policy for ordering blood units in hospital blood banks
(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 ...
Analysis of an order-up-to-level policy for perishables with random issuing
(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 ...
Inventory management in blood banks
(Springer Science, 2015)