Tlahig, Houda; Jebali, Aida; Bouchriha, Hanen - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 3 (2009) 2, pp. 227-246
This paper introduces an iterative two-phased approach to decide on the centralisation versus decentralisation of the hospital sterilisation service department. The first step consists in searching for the optimum configuration that minimises the sterilisation activity cost, while the second...