期刊名称:International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations
印刷版ISSN:1923-2926
电子版ISSN:1923-2934
出版年度:2016
卷号:7
期号:4
页码:535-554
DOI:10.5267/j.ijiec.2016.5.002
语种:English
出版社:Growing Science Publishing Company
摘要:In this paper, a multi-period model for blood supply chain in emergency situation is presented to optimize decisions related to locate blood facilities and distribute blood products after natural disasters. In disastrous situations, uncertainty is an inseparable part of humanitarian logistics and blood supply chain as well. This paper proposes a robust network to capture the uncertain nature of blood supply chain during and after disasters. This study considers donor points, blood facilities, processing and testing labs, and hospitals as the components of blood supply chain. In addition, this paper makes location and allocation decisions for multiple post disaster periods through real data. The study compares the performances of “p-robust optimization” approach and “robust optimization” approach and the results are discussed.