


François, DEVS modelling and simulation for healthcare process application for hospital emergency department, Proceedings of the 50th Annual Simulation Symposium, p. Venkateswaran, Impact of drug supply chain on the dynamics of infectious diseases, System Dynamics Review, Vol. Rosen, Civilian-military pooling of health care resources in Haiti: a theory of complementarities perspective, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. Lee, Multi-robot Control Architecture for Hospital Delivery Service in Unstable Network Environment, The 14th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Vol. Beaulieu, Achieving lean healthcare by combining the two-bin kanban replenishment system with RFID technology, International Journal of Health Management and Information, Vol. Simulation results prove the efficiency of the proposed policy medicines stock-outs and out-of-stock medicines unavailability durations are respectively reduced by 54.24% and 52.06% during ten days of a public protest.Ĭopyright © 2019 Praise Worthy Prize - All rights reserved. RFID enabled Two-Bin system with conveyors is modeled using Colored Timed Petri Nets, first, considering FIFO-POSM policy then considering the proposed policy. This paper proposes a flexible and anticipative policy based on stock coverage indicator and anticipative system of random variations in medicines demand, to considerably reduce or eliminate stock-outs. So far, there is not a flexible and anticipative policy for orders priority management in this case. However, this policy lacks flexibility with random increase in medicines consumption and lacks anticipation, leading to stock-outs occurrence. In case of surge in demand due to special-events and disasters, the resulted big number of replenishment orders is managed in real time according to First-In First-Out (the first order is replenished first) with Priority of Out-of-Stock Medicines (FIFO-POSM) policy. In this framework, replenishment orders are typically managed according to continuous review. Recently, hospitals utilize RFID (Radio-frequency identification) enabled Two-Bin system with conveyors for an effective and automatic inventory and replenishment management.
