Inventory management of platelets in hospitals: Optimal inventory policy for perishable products with regular and optional expedited replenishments

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 420-438

  Zhou, Deming ^a   Leung, Lawrence C ^a   Pierskalla, William P ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual sourcing; Perishable inventory management; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; BLOOD COMPONENT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COST PARAMETERS; DEMAND UNCERTAINTY; DUAL MODES; DUAL SOURCING; EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS; EXPECTED COSTS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY POLICIES; INVENTORY PROBLEM; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; LEAD TIME; LIFE SPAN; OPTIMAL COSTS; OPTIMAL POLICIES; PERIODIC REVIEW; PERISHABLE INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; PERISHABLE PRODUCT; REAL LIFE DATA; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; SEASONALITY; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; EXPERIMENTS; HOSPITALS; OPTIMIZATION; PLATELETS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 80054885828     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1110.0334     Document Type: Article

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