It also provides a trade-off analysis between the cost efficiency (via minimizing the total costs), responsiveness (through minimizing the maximum unsatisfied demand) and effectiveness of the designed network (by minimizing the time span between blood production in regional blood centers and consumption in demand zones so that their freshness is preserved).
The paper presents a bi-objective robust program to design a cost-responsiveness efficient emergency medical services (EMS) system under uncertainty.
We further analyse the cost-responsiveness behaviour of health care costs in Kenya.
The proposed model simultaneously determines the location of EMS stations, the assignment of demand areas to EMS stations, and the number of EMS vehicles at each station to balance cost and responsiveness.
And at the generation end of the network, while batteries may play there one day, for now the technology options are largely in old but adequate (in terms of efficiency, cost and responsiveness features) storage from compressed air and pumped hydro.
That will positively impact bottom line costs and responsiveness to customer demand.
However, the optimization of these location decisions requires careful attention to the inherent trade-offs among facility costs, inventory costs, transportation costs, and customer responsiveness.
The MSDD enables a firm to simultaneously achieve cost, quality, delivery responsiveness to the customer, and flexibility objectives.
The "middle of the road", indirect gradient metric selection approach produced precise and sensitive MMIBI, but at the cost of reduced responsiveness.
A critical part of mass customization is simultaneously achieving customer responsiveness, cost efficiency, and high volume production in the manufacturing system.
