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Blood Inventory Management System: Reducing Wastage and Shortage

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Proceedings on 25th International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management – IJCIEOM (IJCIEOM 2019)

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Abstract

Blood banks face inventory management problems associated to demand uncertainty and high inventory levels. An efficient blood inventory management is related to the use of simple, transparent and easy-to-understand procedures by blood banks’ employees. However, the literature about good practices in blood bank inventory management is scarce, reinforcing new developments need on this subject to ensure a good availability of blood products and reducing wastage. This research presents a blood inventory management system implemented in software, DOAR, able to meet demand while minimizing blood bags wastage. DOAR is simple, user-friendly and able to optimize blood inventory and donations. The purpose of the software is to provide a link between the demand by blood components and collected blood bags.

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  1. Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido, Mossoró, RN, Brazil

    Breno Barros Telles do Carmo, Daniel Faustino Lacerda de Souza, Paulo Gabriel Gadelha Queiroz, Amim Alleff de Souza & Itágores Leandro Bezerra de Lira

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  1. Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

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    Bojan Lalic

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do Carmo, B.B.T., de Souza, D.F.L., Queiroz, P.G.G., de Souza, A.A., de Lira, I.L.B. (2020). Blood Inventory Management System: Reducing Wastage and Shortage. In: Anisic, Z., Lalic, B., Gracanin, D. (eds) Proceedings on 25th International Joint Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management – IJCIEOM. IJCIEOM 2019. Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43616-2_3

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