Advances in Industrial Engineering

Advances in Industrial Engineering

An L-Shaped Method to Solve a Stochastic Blood Supply Chain Network Design Problem in a Natural Disaster

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Faraz Salehi
Yasin Allahyari Emamzadeh
Seyyed Mohammad Javad Mirzapour Al-E-Hashem
Reyhaneh Shafiei Aghdam
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran.
10.22059/jieng.2021.325375.1776
Abstract
Level of blood and blood products in human body is very important. Therefor, managing supply of blood is critical issue in healthcare system specially when the system faced with high demand for the product. In natural disasters, demand for blood units increase sharply because of injuries. Hence, efficiency in blood supply chain management play a significant role in this situation in supplying blood for transfusion centers, it is vital to supply in right time to prevent from casualties. Present paper proposes an optimization model for designing blood supply chain network in case of an earthquake disaster. The proposed two-stage stochastic model is Programmed based on scenarios for earthquake in a populated mega-city. The designed network has three layers; first layer is donation areas, the second layer consists distribution centers and facilities and the last layer is transfusion centers. In proposed two-stage stochastic optimization model, decisions of locating permanent collection facilities and amount of each blood type pre-inventory are made in first stage and operation decisions that have dependent on possible scenarios are made in second stage. The model also considers the possibility of blood transfusion between different blood types and its convertibility to blood derivatives regarding medical requirements. In order to solve the proposed two-stage stochastic model, L-shaped algorithm, an efficient algorithm to solve scenario based stochastic models, has been used. In addition, application of the model and the algorithm tests with real data of likely earthquake in Tehran mega city (Densest city of Iran).
Keywords
Blood Supply Chain
Network Design
Stochastic Programming
L-Shaped Exact Method
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Advances in Industrial Engineering
Volume 55, Issue 1
Winter 2021
Pages 47-68