Optimal design of pharemaceuticals supply chain

Abstract

It is very known that the availability of drugs is the major problem faced by patients. Therefore, this article deals with the optimization of a pharmaceutical supply chain, i.e. we need to reorganize the entire current pharmaceutical network with a main objective of no patient suffers as long as the medicine exists somewhere. Achieving this requires a strategic organization of the geographic network in order to gain a better distribution. It is based on the information that must be received after a general study on the entire health sector in a specific area. The problem is formulated in a nonlinear model (MINLP) and in order to solve it we resort to using optimization solvers to show the effectiveness of this approach