We introduce a problem faced by the blood bank of the Austrian Red Cross for Eastern Austria: how to cost-effectively organize the delivery of blood products to Austrian hospitals? We investigate the potential value of switching from the current vendee-managed inventory set up to a vendor-managed inventory system. We present solution approaches based on integer programming and variable neighborhood search and evaluate their performance. © Springer-Verlag 2008.
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Hemmelmayr, V., Doerner, K. F., Hartl, R. F., & Savelsbergh, M. W. P. (2009). Delivery strategies for blood products supplies. OR Spectrum, 31(4), 707–725. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00291-008-0134-7
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