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Harshal Lowalekar
Other affiliations: Arizona State University
Bio: Harshal Lowalekar is an academic researcher from Indian Institute of Management Indore. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supply chain & Record locking. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 11 publications receiving 139 citations. Previous affiliations of Harshal Lowalekar include Arizona State University.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the recent contributions in the area of blood bank inventory management and relate them to the challenges in the Indian context and identify several opportunities for micro modeling in the context of Indian blood banks.
Abstract: In this paper we provide an overview of the recent contributions in the area of blood bank inventory management and relate them to the challenges in the Indian context. We study the current blood-banking scenario in India and identify challenges that are peculiar to Indian blood banks. We review the role of formal methods in analyzing the complex blood bank inventory management problem and identify the existing research gaps in the context of blood banks. We conclude the paper by identifying several opportunities for micro modeling in the context of Indian blood banks.
40 citations
TL;DR: A typical blood bank gets its major supply of blood from organizing blood donation camps, but the quantity of blood collected is random and it might be sensible to cut off the supply at some level to reduce the wastages by overcollection.
29 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate an application of TOC's thinking process (TP) in a blood bank environment and demonstrate how these seemingly unrelated problems faced by the bank are in fact highly inter-related and how they all originate from a single root-cause.
25 citations
TL;DR: A simulation model is developed to show that the combined age-and-stock-based policy would outperform some of the popular periodic reviews and continuous review policies in controlling total costs by about 5% on an average basis.
21 citations
TL;DR: TOC's holistic approach helped the company to double its profits and improve its cash position during the Great Recession and help the company achieve a significant reduction in its finished goods, raw material and work-in-process inventories at various levels across the supply chain.
Abstract: This research describes in detail an application of theory of constraints (TOC) and its resulting benefits on the supply chain performance of India's largest lock manufacturing company over a perio...
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TL;DR: An up-to-date review of perishable inventory models, but also of the joint key topics of publications from January 2012 until December 2015 in the research area of deteriorating inventory models is given.
206 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a structured review of the literature on quantitative modelling for the blood product supply chain is presented, where the models are broken down into five categories: collection, production, inventory, and delivery.
Abstract: 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 models but chiefly because of the structured way in which the models are presented. The models are broken down into five categories. The first four categories represent the four stages (echelons) in the supply chain: collection, production, inventory, and delivery. The final category contains “integrated” models which cover more than one stage. Each section (other than integrated models, which are treated slightly differently) contains two distinct elements. The first element is a diagrammatic representation of decisions and relationships, broken down by hierarchy level (strategic – tactical – operational). The second element is a text description of the main features, contributions and gaps found in the analysed models. An additional element for each section is available online, namely a searchable table describing specific features of each echelon, together with a taxonomic key to assist the reader.
161 citations
TL;DR: The main contribution of this survey is providing an update of the literature review on blood supply chain according to a new taxonomy as well as a critical analysis of the state of the art in this topic.
85 citations
TL;DR: An enhanced perspective incorporating a two-phase preemptive policy by which the disruption risk is diminished through a hybrid technique using the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and grey rational analysis for determining supplementary blood facilities, to cooperate in production process and decrease interruptions is addressed.
Abstract: As a service-oriented supply chain, blood supply chain management deals with a human-to-human network involved with a number of direct challenges such as irregularity in both blood supply and demand as well as multiplicity of blood products, their respective lifetimes and perishability. Besides, facing risks originating from natural disasters or man-made incidents such as labor strikes, economic problems, and so on, and from uncertainty embedded in the input data is also a real highlight in designing and managing a blood supply chain network. This paper addresses an enhanced perspective incorporating a two-phase preemptive policy by which the disruption risk is diminished through a hybrid technique using the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process and grey rational analysis for determining supplementary blood facilities, to cooperate in production process and decrease interruptions. Furthermore, a p-robust formulation is presented to control the network reliability under disruption scenarios at minimum cost. To protect the network against the uncertainty, a consolidated approach based on a recently developed fuzzy measure is extended. We also examine the validity and practicality of the proposed model and its solution perspective along with the reliability of the network by a real case of Iran. It is worth nothing that the problems in the case of disasters in which the impact of the two risk streams will be felt most keenly, could benefit from the proposed procedure advantages since it develops a proactive and controlling approach which can be extensively applicable in disastrous situation.
82 citations