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Home chemotherapy delivery: An integrated production scheduling and multi-trip vehicle routing problem

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Home chemotherapy systems allow the administration of cancer treatments at a patient’s residence, avoiding an admission to inpatient care facilities. This innovative health care model is interesting both economically and on a human level. It also raises several logistical challenges. This paper focuses on one of the optimization problems arising in the context of home chemotherapy services, where a complex scheduling problem underlies the operational planning process. Indeed, some injectable chemotherapy drugs may remain stable only during a few hours after being produced. Consequently, their production has to be carefully scheduled jointly with their administration, which takes place at the patients homes during a predefined time window. This gives rise to an integrated production scheduling and vehicle routing problem, that we address using a large neighborhood search approach. Production and administration sequences are iteratively modified, while a linear program is used to determine optimal production and administration start times for the candidate sequences. We analyze the impact of the linear program and establish that it is a crucial component of the proposed method. We assess the performance of the proposed method by comparing its solutions with those obtained through a compact mathematical formulation. We then provide insights about the cost of taking into consideration time-related aspects of the problem, i.e., integrated planning horizons, drug stability times, and administration time windows.
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hal-04526358 , version 1 (29-03-2024)

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Yasemin Arda, Diego Cattaruzza, Véronique François, Maxime Ogier. Home chemotherapy delivery: An integrated production scheduling and multi-trip vehicle routing problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 2024, ⟨10.1016/j.ejor.2024.03.039⟩. ⟨hal-04526358⟩
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