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Towards an Optimized and Socio-Economic Blood Supply Chain Network

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Operational Research (IO 2021)

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In this work, a two-stage allocation model involving healthcare facilities with blood services is developed to design the Blood Supply Chain (BSC), where economic and social aspects were considered. In the first stage, the design of a BSC network is considered to support blood supply and demand, and the geographical distribution for donors/patients according to the location of the healthcare facilities. Based on the first stage results, the product flow among blood centers (BC) and hospitals, as well as the minimization of costs are studied in the second stage. Economic aspects were considered through cost minimization while the social aspect was explored by allocating donors/patients to the closest facilities. Exploratory experiments are conducted using Portuguese National Health Services data to test the model’s applicability. From this, it was concluded that there is a need for additional blood services for the collection phase, and a large number of healthcare facilities with non-licensed blood services should be licensed in the considered SC network. Regarding donors, the allocation costs represent 90% of the total costs, meaning that more types of collection facilities are needed in the context of our study. For patients, adding healthcare facilities with licensed blood services represents the higher costs (78%). Concerning the product flow optimization, the production costs correspond to 82%. Additionally, the model allows the improvement of the distribution of the hospitals according to the existing BCs at reduced costs.

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Torrado, A., Barbosa-Póvoa, A.P. (2023). Towards an Optimized and Socio-Economic Blood Supply Chain Network. In: Almeida, J.P., Geraldes, C.S., Lopes, I.C., Moniz, S., Oliveira, J.F., Pinto, A.A. (eds) Operational Research. IO 2021. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 411. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20788-4_13

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