A hybrid inventory control policy for medical supplies in hospitals

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buir.advisorAlp, Osman
dc.contributor.authorAkın, Gökçe
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-08T18:12:41Z
dc.date.available2016-01-08T18:12:41Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.departmentDepartment of Industrial Engineeringen_US
dc.descriptionAnkara : The Department of Industrial Engineering and the Institute of Engineering and Sciences of Bilkent University, 2010.en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2010.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references leaves 62-64.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, we consider the inventory control problem of medical supplies that arises in a particular hospital environment. The items are stored in nursing stations from where they are retrieved by the nurses and used for the needs of in-patients or out-patients. The nursing stations are replenished from a central warehouse. Items are moved between the hospital’s central warehouse and the nursing stations by a capacitated porter cart. In the representative nursing station that we analyze, the need for the medical supplies by the in-patients can arise at any time during day or night. It is possible to replenish the nursing stations during the day time on a continuous scale; however, this is not possible after-hours because the warehouse operates only during regular working hours. For this particular setting, we propose a hybrid inventory control policy which consists of a continuous review joint replenishment policy to manage the day time demand and a periodic review policy to manage the night time demand. The prior performance measure is set to satisfy the target service levels in the nursing stations. For a special case of the problem with a single item, we develop exact expressions to estimate the policy parameters. For the multi-item case, we analyze the impact of the policy parameters on the service level targets by simulating a representative system under different scenarios. Finally, we analyze a sample data collected from a nursing station and prescribe methods to determine the policy parametersen_US
dc.description.degreeM.S.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityAkın, Gökçeen_US
dc.format.extentxi, 76 leavesen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/15059
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherBilkent Universityen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.subjectMedical suppliesen_US
dc.subjecthealth care systemen_US
dc.subjectservice levelen_US
dc.subjectjoint replenishmenten_US
dc.subjectinventory controlen_US
dc.subject.lccWX147 .A55 2010en_US
dc.subject.lcshHospitals--Materials management.en_US
dc.subject.lcshMedical supplies.en_US
dc.subject.lcshInventory control.en_US
dc.subject.lcshBusiness logistics.en_US
dc.subject.lcshHealth facilities--Materials management.en_US
dc.subject.lcshEquipment and supplies, Hospital.en_US
dc.titleA hybrid inventory control policy for medical supplies in hospitalsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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