Inventory-responsive donor-management policy: A tandem queueing network model

• Main Authors: ZHU, Taozeng, YEO, Nicholas Teck Boon, GAO, Sarah Yini, LOKE, Gar Goei
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Pipeline Queues; blood collection; donor management; humanitarian operations; perishable inventory management; Nonprofit Administration and Management; Operations and Supply Chain Management; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/7260; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/8259/viewcontent/Inventory_responsiveDonor_Mgt_Policy_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Problem definition: In the blood-donor-management problem, the blood bank incentivizes donors to donate, given blood inventory levels. We propose a model to optimize such incentivization schemes under the context of random demand, blood perishability, observation period between donations, and variab...