Blood platelet production with breaks: optimization by SDP and simulation

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 464-473

  Haijema, René ^a   van Dijk, Nico ^a   van der Wal, Jan ^a   Smit Sibinga, Cees ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Blood bank; Perishable inventory management; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

BLOOD BANK; BLOOD PLATELETS; BLOOD PRODUCTS; CHRISTMAS; NEW APPROACHES; NONSTATIONARY; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PERISHABLE INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; PRODUCTION AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; SHELF LIFE; SIMULATION APPROACH; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; WESTERN EUROPE;

BLOOD; BLOOD SUBSTITUTES; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

PLATELETS;

EID: 70349220872     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2006.11.026     Document Type: Article

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