A location Model for Blood Donation Camps with Consideration of Disruption

Abstract

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-language: FA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Blood supply chain management is one of the main<br />challenges <span style="color: #131413;">in healthcare system. Optimal location<br />of blood donation camps is one of the key factors in optimizing the blood<br />supply chain. Disruption in location of blood donation camps because of<br />disasters will have a negative impact on the entire supply chain. </span>This<br />paper develops a generalized network optimization model for the complex supply<br />chain of human blood, that consists of blood donation camps, collection sites,<br />disposal sites as well as points of demand and<span style="color: #231f20;"> a<br />stochastic programming formulation for the </span>location of blood donation<br />camps<span style="color: #231f20;"> with unreliable facilities is presented.</span><br />This model determines the location of blood donation camps and the number of<br />transfused blood units taken under different scenarios between the components<br />of supply chain. A sampling-based algorithm called sample average approximation<br />algorithm is used to approximately solve this model and present the<br />computational results.</span>