Developing smart and active packaging of inventory model in drug supply chain for special diseases

Author

Nakhai, Isa ; Jafar, Saman

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Eng., Tarbiat Modares Univ., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2010

fDate

2-5 June 2010

Firstpage

550

Lastpage

555

Abstract

At a outset, active and smart packaging and their role in supply chain is studied, then by means of special function of drug products decay for completing the model in order to investigate the role of active and smart packaging in decay rate and service level of medicinal products, a coefficient is added to the model as smart packaging factor and then evaluating it. After that, an inventory model for medicinal products with drug decay function is presented in order to obtain the least cost considering shortage of backlogging. Demand rate depending on inventory level is modeled in three levels. Finally, to specify the role of packaging, optimum of drug supply chain model costs is studied.

Keywords

inventory management; packaging; pharmaceutical industry; supply chain management; active packaging; drug decay function; drug products; drug supply chain; inventory model; medicinal products; smart packaging; special diseases; Carbon dioxide; Cost function; Diseases; Drugs; Industrial engineering; Instruction sets; Inventory control; Packaging; Stability; Supply chains; Multi-echelon supply chain; active and smart packaging; drug stability; inventory control; shortage with partial backlogging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management of Innovation and Technology (ICMIT), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6565-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6566-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMIT.2010.5492762

Filename

5492762