Review Article
A Structured Review of Quantitative Models of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
Table 2
Quantitative models of pharmaceutical inventories.
| Author | Source of uncertainty | Type of demand | Number of medicines | Constraints | Methodology | Objective |
| Şatir and Cengiz (1987) | Demand | Stochastic | 3 | Budgetary Shortage Lead times | Stochastic optimization | Stock-out |
| Vincent and Ranton (1984) | Demand | Stochastic | 1 | Space limitation Delivery Criticality | Optimization | Total costs |
| Dellaert and Van De Poel (1996) | Demand | Stochastic | 1544 | | Optimization | Total costs |
| Kelle et al. (2012) | Demand | Stochastic | 12 | Space limitation Service level Shortage | Optimization | Total costs |
| Vila-Parrish et al. (2008) | Demand | Stochastic | 3 | Shelf life | Markov decision process Simulation | Total costs |
| Wu et al. (2015) | Demand | Stochastic | 1 | Space limitation | Simulation | Total costs |
| Wang et al. (2015) | Demand | Stochastic | 1 | Shortage Stock-out Space limitation | Simulation Heuristic | Total costs |
| Çakici et al. (2011) | Demand | Stochastic | 1 | Lead times Shortage | Stochastic optimization | Total costs |
| Candan and Yazgan (2016) | | Deterministic | 15 | Space limitation | Optimization | Total net profit |
| Guerrero et al. (2013) | Demand Trigger an order Delivery success | Stochastic | 4 | Space limitation Service level Quantity ordered | Markov decision process Heuristic | Total costs |
| Rappold et al. (2011) | Demand Bill of material | Stochastic | 4 | Space limitation | Optimization | Total costs |
| Bijvank and Vis (2012) | Demand | Stochastic | 1 | Space limitation Service level | Heuristic | Service level Capacity |
| Little and Coughlan (2008) | Demand | Stochastic | 110 | Space limitation Delivery Criticality | Optimization | Minimum service level Average service level |
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