2. Contribution
This paper provides an overview of the theory and the practice of the blood supply chain and inventory management. A linear programming model was developed to optimise the number of daily collected units at a regional blood bank. The study focused on challenging the complex nature of the blood supply chain by providing a simple model for inventory management while minimising cost and waste. The model addressed scheduled demand from a steady number of donors. This study based its parameters on data collected from Au Dhabi regional blood bank and implemented the model with the use of Gurobi solver.