Optimizing the Issue of Blood Supply Chain Network Design with a Reliability Approach

Supply chain network design of a product is one of the primary and strategic measures in supply chain management that plays a vital role in supply chain performance. Since blood is a special commodity and has no substitute, supply chain management and optimization have a special place among researchers. In this research, for the first time, a two objective nonlinear mixed integer model is presented to help make strategic and operational decisions in the blood supply chain. The first objective function is related to cost minimization and the second objective function is related to supply chain reliability maximization, which is considered as a series-parallel system. To check the validity of the model, a numerical example is solved using GAMS software, then using MOPSO meta-heuristic algorithm, the model is solved in larger dimensions and while comparing the performance criteria of multi-objective algorithms, the results are reviewed.