In today’s highly competitive and demanding environment, the pressure on both public and private organizations is to achieve a better way to deliver values to end customers. There has been a growing recognition that the two goals, cost reduction and customer service are achieved through...

Several analytical models have been developed to solve the integrated production distribution problems in Supply Chain Management (SCM). In certain multi-stage service supply chain like blood banks, the term ‘production’ is referred as collection. It is often crucial to consider the...