Andres Felipe Osorio Muriel

• PhD
• Faculty Member at Icesi University

Objective: Estimate an optimal policy for the blood platelets supply chain distribution problem using a vendor-managed inventory problems approach. Methods and materials: This paper uses an integrated simulation-based optimization model to develop a Vendor-Managed Inventory approach for blood platelets. Simulation is used to estimate the performanc...

p>The last 10 years have witnessed a marked upsurge of attention on Hybrid Simulation (HS). The majority of authors define HS as a joint modelling approach which includes two or more simulation approaches (mainly Discrete Event Simulation, System Dynamics and Agent Based Simulation). Whilst some may argue that HS has been in existence for more than...

Hybrid simulation (defined as a modelling approach that combines two or more of the following methods: discrete-event simulation, system dynamics, and agent-based simulation) has experienced near-exponential growth in popularity in the past two decades. However, a large proportion of the academic literature on hybrid simulation is found in computer...

Background The topology of the blood supply chain network can take different forms in different settings, depending on geography, politics, costs, etc. Many developed countries are moving towards centralized networks. The goal for all blood distribution networks, regardless of topology, remains the same: to satisfy demand at minimal cost and minima...

This paper addresses the acquisition of non-authoritative collaborative traffic data to predict the noise generated by urban roads. The information about traffic is acquired by means of a API developed by Google, which provides data about travel time and speed over a start-end routes matrix. To determine the traffic flown from these variables, a pr...

Production planning in the blood supply chain is a challenging task. Many complex factors such as uncertain supply and demand, blood group proportions, shelf life constraints and different collection and production methods have to be taken into account, and thus advanced methodologies are required for decision making. This paper presents an integra...

In the blood supply chain, several alternative technologies are available for collection and processing. These technologies differ in cost and efficiency: for example, collection by apheresis requires very expensive machines but the yield of blood products is considerably greater than whole blood collection. Blood centre managers are faced with the...

This thesis introduces and studies di?erent problems in the blood supply chain. The problems are focused on aspects less frequently studied in the literature such as the exploitation of the di?erent collection and production alternatives, consideration of multiple products and uncertainty in demand and supply. These important features can be found...

This paper presents a structured review of the literature on quantitative modelling for the blood product supply chain. This is a widely researched topic, dating back to the 1960s, and several other reviews have been published over the years. However, this paper presents new relevant information for researchers, not only by including more recent mo...

Decision-making processes often contain more than one objective. In technology selection in the blood collection processes, the cost related to the collection technology and the amount of donors required to meet the demand are in conflict. In the same way, in the blood supply chains decisions become more complex when features of the system such as...

Financial institutions operate a supply chain where only one product is moved across the network. Although the cash is kept in several nodes to service the demand of final customers, availability causes opportunity cost related with its investment options. When planning the inventory of cash that should be maintained across the network, transportat...