Inventory Routing Problem with Transshipment and Substitution for Blood Products Using the Case of the Belgian Blood Distribution

Christine Di Martinelly, Nadine Meskens, Fouad Riane () and Imane Hssini
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Christine Di Martinelly: LEM - Lille économie management - UMR 9221 - UA - Université d'Artois - UCL - Université catholique de Lille - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Nadine Meskens: UCL - Université Catholique de Louvain = Catholic University of Louvain
Fouad Riane: Université Paris-Saclay
Imane Hssini: Ecole Nationale des Sciences Appliquées d'Oujda

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Abstract: In this paper, we deal with a blood supply chain management problem. We focus in particular on blood distribution routes design and optimization. Blood is a scarce and perishable product, made of multiple components, each with specific compatibility rules. We would like to investigate the impact of com-patible products substitution and transshipment between hospitals on blood de-mand satisfaction. We use the case of the blood supply chain in Belgium as an application. We model the case as an Inventory Routing Problem with transship-ment and substitution for perishable products in a capacity constrained environ-ment. We implement the model and conduct experimentations to evaluate the contribution of both transshipment and substitution with regards to shortages and distribution and inventory costs reduction. In a capacity constrained environ-ment, at equivalent cost, mismatching/substitution is preferred to transshipment to satisfy the demand and avoid backorders.

Keywords: Inventory routing; Blood supply chain; Sensitivity analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-09-05
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Published in IFIP International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS), Sep 2021, Nantes, France. pp.87-96, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-85914-5_10⟩

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85914-5_10

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