An exact solution for joint optimization of inventory and routing decisions in blood supply chains: A case study

Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 315-333

  Kazemi, Seyed Mahmood ^a   Rabbani, Masoud ^a   Tavakkoli Moghaddam, Reza ^a   Shahreza, Farid Abolhassani ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Blood inventory routing; Branch and cut algorithm; Multi vehicle IRP; Perishable products; Platelet

Indexed keywords

EID: 85043456965     PISSN: 0424267X     EISSN: 18423264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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