Surgical procedures require a large number of consumable supplies that need to be kept in hospital inventory and transported to the operating rooms (OR) before the surgery. A surgical preference card (SPC) provides a list of items to be prepared for each surgery. For each item, a SPC also...

In this paper, a dynamic nearest neighbor (DNN) policy is proposed for operating a fleet of vehicles to serve customers, who place calls in a Euclidean service area according to a Poisson process. Each vehicle serves one customer at a time, who has a distinct origin and destination independently...