Order policy for emergency medicine with return uncertainty in a closed-loop supply chain.

Due to difficulties in accurately predicting the emergency timing and the magnitude of a disaster, operations for perishable emergency inventory planning often encounter expiration and shortage problems. In order to ease the expiration problem in emergency medicine preparation inventories, this pape...

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Main Authors: Wei Pan, Ying Guo, Wenji Zhang, Lei Jin, Shujie Liao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6201896?pdf=render