Abstract
We introduce a problem faced by the blood bank of the Austrian Red Cross for Eastern Austria: how to cost-effectively organize the delivery of blood products to Austrian hospitals? We investigate the potential value of switching from the current vendee-managed inventory set up to a vendor-managed inventory system. We present solution approaches based on integer programming and variable neighborhood search and evaluate their performance.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 707-725 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | OR Spectrum: quantitative approaches in management |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 2119 Technical Sciences not elsewhere classified
- 502052 Business administration