Purpose – Managing perishable inventories is a trade‐off of shortages and lost sales against wastage. This paper aims to identify what drives good management of perishables within the supply chain using the example of blood inventory management in hospitals. Design/methodology/approach –...

Introduction -- Case studies -- Efficient integration of shipping into intra-regional supply chains / Anastasia Christodoulou, Zeeshan Raza and Johan Woxenius -- Overcrowding in a hospital emergency department : a supply chain management referral pathway to reduce overcrowding / Ingrid Hunt and...