Table 1.

A review of literature on blood supply chain.

Author	Type of model		Solution procedure			Model nature		Decision level						Commodity		Objective function				Period		Number of echelon		Constraint		Application type
	Optimization	Simulation	Exact	Heuristic	Meta Heuristic	Deterministic	Uncertainty	Location	Inventory	Routing	Allocation	Flow	Distribution	Single	Multi	Coverage	Cost	Distance	time	Single	Multi	Single	Multi	Transportation Capacity	Substitution priority	Numerical Example	Original case study
[41]	x		x				x	x			x	x			x		x				x		x		x		x
[39]	x			x			x	x	x		x			x		x	x				x		x				x
[38]	x				x		x			x	x				x		x		x		x		x	x			x
[37]	x		x				x		x		x			x			x			x			x			x
[36]	x			x			x		x			x		x			x				x	x				x
[35]	x		x				x	x				x			x	x	x			x		x		x			x
[33]	x	x		x			x		x					x			x				x	x				x
[32]	x		x				x	x	x			x	x	x			x				x	x					x
[31]	x		x			x			x	x			x	x			x				x		x	x			x
[30]	x		x			x		x	x					x		x					x	x					x
[29]	x		x					x						x			x			x		x				x
[28]		x			x		x	x	x		x				x		x				x						x
[27]	x			x			x	x	x				x		x		x	x		x			x				x
[1]	x				x		x	x			x		x	x			x				x		x				x
Current research	x	x	x		x		x	x	x		x	x	x		x		x		x		x		x	x	x		x