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Elyn L. Solano-Charris is Associate Professor and Faculty and Research Director of the International School of Economic and Administrative Sciences - EICEA at Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia. She has a Ph.D. in Optimization and Reliability Systems from Université de Technologie de Troyes in Troyes, France. Has been an author and peer-reviewer for high-impact journals and academic events in the Logistics field, and her main interests are supply chain management, scheduling, optimization, transportation, and sustainability.
The coronavirus disease 2019, known as COVID-19, has generated an imminent necessity for personal protective equipment (PPE) that became essential for all populations and much more for health centers, clinics, hospitals, and intensive care units (ICUs). Considering this fact, one of the main issues for cities’ governments is the distribution of PPE to ICUs to ensure the protection of medical personnel and, therefore, the sustainability of the health system. Aware of this challenge, in this paper, we propose a simheuristic approach for supplying personal protective equipment to intensive care units which is based on the location-routing problem (LRP). The objective is to provide decision makers with a decision support tool that considers uncertain demands, distribution cost, and reliability in the solutions. To validate our approach, a case study in Bogotá, Colombia was analyzed. Computational results show the efficiency of the usage of alternative safety stock policies to face demand uncertainty in terms of both expected stochastic costs and reliabilities.
Andrés Martínez-Reyes; Carlos Quintero-Araújo; Elyn Solano-Charris. Supplying Personal Protective Equipment to Intensive Care Units during the COVID-19 Outbreak in Colombia. A Simheuristic Approach Based on the Location-Routing Problem. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7822 .
AMA StyleAndrés Martínez-Reyes, Carlos Quintero-Araújo, Elyn Solano-Charris. Supplying Personal Protective Equipment to Intensive Care Units during the COVID-19 Outbreak in Colombia. A Simheuristic Approach Based on the Location-Routing Problem. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (14):7822.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndrés Martínez-Reyes; Carlos Quintero-Araújo; Elyn Solano-Charris. 2021. "Supplying Personal Protective Equipment to Intensive Care Units during the COVID-19 Outbreak in Colombia. A Simheuristic Approach Based on the Location-Routing Problem." Sustainability 13, no. 14: 7822.