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OR SPECTRUM
Volume 31, Issue 4, Pages 707-725Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-008-0134-7
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Variable neighborhood search; Inventory routing; Fixed routes; Blood delivery
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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.
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