Tutorial on constructing a red blood cell inventory management system with two demand rates

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1051-1059

  Kopach, Renata ^a   Balcioǧlu, Bariş ^b   Carter, Michael ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood; Perishable inventory; Queuing; Stochastic modeling

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

DEMAND RATES; PERISHABLE INVENTORY; STOCHASTIC MODELING;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 34848884865     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.01.051     Document Type: Article

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