Stochastic Inventory Model for Minimizing Blood Shortage and Outdating in a Blood Supply Chain under Supply and Demand Uncertainty

Table 2

Average performance measures for the base case setting (=300,  = 100).

Performance measure	Hospital 1	Hospital 2	Blood center
Unit shortage	14	23	41
Unit outdating	0	1	0
Unit holding	21	0	1
Unit purchased	186	78	225
Fixed cost	1.13	2.25	11.25
Demand/supply	N∼(200, 32)	N∼(100, 16)	N∼(225, 37)
Overall measures
Average cost/per day/per scenario	Best	Worst	STD
4,068	3,800	4,264	84