Blood supply chain network design considering blood group compatibility under uncertainty

Abstract

This paper addresses the design of a blood supply chain (SC) network considering blood group compatibility. To this aim, a bi-objective mathematical programming model is developed which minimises the total cost as well as the maximum unsatisfied demand. Due to uncertain nature of some input parameters, two novel robust possibilistic programming models are proposed based on credibility measure. The data of a real case study are then used to illustrate the applicability and performance of the proposed models as well as validating the proposed robust possibilistic programming approach. The obtained results show the superiority of the developed models and significant cost savings compared to current existed blood SC network.

Keywords:

• blood supply chain network design
• robust possibilistic programming
• optimisation
• supply chain design
• fuzzy methods
• mixed integer linear programming