The inventory centralization impacts on sustainability of the blood supply chain Hosseinifard, Seyedehzahra and Abbasi, Babak 2016, The inventory centralization impacts on sustainability of the blood supply chain, Computers and operations research, In Press, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1016/j.cor.2016.08.014. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The inventory centralization impacts on sustainability of the blood supply chain Author(s) Hosseinifard, Seyedehzahra Abbasi, Babak Journal name Computers and operations research Season In Press Start page 1 End page 7 Total pages 7 Publisher Elsevier Place of publication Amsterdam, The Netherlands Publication date 2016-08-27 ISSN 1873-765X 0305-0548 Keyword(s) blood supply chain two echelon inventory (S-1,S) policy centralization stochastic replenishment Summary This paper studies the significance of inventory centralization at the second echelon of a two-echelon supply chain with perishable items when the agents of the second echelon use an ( S − 1, S) inventory policy. The replenishment at the first echelon is considered to be stochastic. The context in which the studied problem exists is in the blood supply network where the first echelon includes a single blood bank that receives stochastic supply from donors. The second echelon contains hospitals receiving external demands (transfusions). In our proposed structure, some of the hospitals in close proximity of each other maintain centralized inventories to serve their demands in addition to the demands by other neighbour hospitals. The results demonstrate that centralization of hospitals’ inventory is a key factor in the blood supply chain and can increase the sustainability and resilient of the blood supply chain. Using numerical study, it was observed that reducing the number of hospitals that hold inventory from 7 to 3 decreases out date and shortage in the supply chain by 21% and 40% respectively. 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.cor.2016.08.014 Field of Research 150309 Logistics and Supply Chain Management 080605 Decision Support and Group Support Systems 0102 Applied Mathematics 0103 Numerical And Computational Mathematics Socio Economic Objective 910402 Management HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal ERA Research output type C Journal article Copyright notice ©2016, Elsevier Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30087005 Document type: Journal Article Collection: Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics Related Links Link Description Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to in press version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 12 Oct 2016, 10:04:50 EST Thu, 13 Oct 2016, 04:01:57 EST Fri, 14 Oct 2016, 11:28:03 EST Thu, 03 Nov 2016, 11:15:41 EST Fri, 04 Nov 2016, 08:08:38 EST Wed, 09 Nov 2016, 12:28:00 EST Wed, 09 Nov 2016, 12:31:52 EST Wed, 11 Jan 2017, 10:01:32 EST Fri, 21 Apr 2017, 13:46:33 EST Mon, 22 May 2017, 14:44:12 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 48 Abstract Views, 1 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 14 Oct 2016, 11:28:03 EST

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