Research Article
A Multiobjective Model for a Multilevel Blood Supply Chain to Improve the Attractiveness of Blood Centers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Table 1
The literature of the proposed blood supply chain network under the COVID-19 epidemy.
| Authors (year) | Location | Allocation | Inventory | Uncertainty | Objectives | Modeling approach | Solution approach | Network’s element | Single objective | Multiobjective | Normal/improved blood groups | Mobile blood centers | Local blood centers | Regional blood centers |
| Ghandforoush and Sen (2010) [19] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | | S | | ✓ | | | ✓ | Baesler et al. (2014) [15] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | | S | | ✓ | | | ✓ | Zahraee et al. (2015) [20] | ✓ | ✓ | | | ✓ | | DS | | ✓ | | | ✓ | Hosseinifard and Abbasi (2018) [18] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | SP | | ✓ | | | ✓ | Rajendran and Ravindran (2017) [17] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | SP | H | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | Duan et al. (2018) [16] | ✓ | ✓ | | | ✓ | | DP | | ✓ | | | ✓ | Habibi-Kouchaksaraei et al. (2018) [21] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | SP | MH | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | Ramezanian and Behbodi (2018) [22] | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | | DP | E | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | Yahia (2020) [7] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | RP | H | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | Hosseini et al. (2023) [23] | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | | PP | H | ✓ | | ✓ | ✓ | Abdolazimi et al. (2023) [1] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | SP | E | ✓ | | | ✓ | Asgharizadeh et al. (2023) [2] | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | | ✓ | SP | H | ✓ | ✓ | | | Hosseini et al. (2023) [23] | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | | ✓ | RPP | MH | ✓ | | ✓ | | Current study | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | SP | E | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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Note: DP: deterministic programming, E: exact, H: heuristic, MH: metaheuristic, PP: possibilistic programming, RPP: robust possibilistic programming, S: simulation, DS: dynamic simulation, SP: stochastic programming.
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