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Forecasting demand for blood products: Towards inventory management of a perishable product.
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- Risk management in a blood center: A step towards risk reduction.Bioinformation · 2026Article
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Abstract
Forecasting consumption of blood products can reduce their order frequency by 60% and inventory level by 40%. This also prevents shortage by balancing demand and supply. The study aimed to establish a "Simple Average with Mean Annual Increment" (SAMAI) method of time series forecasting and to compare its results with those of ARIMA, ratio to trend, and simple average to forecast demand of blood products. Monthly demand data of blood component from January 2017 to December 2022 (data set I) was used for creating a forecasting model. To avoid the effect of COVID19 pandemic instead of actual data of year 2020 and 2021, average monthly values of previous three years were used (data set II). The data from January to July 2023 were used as testing data set. To assess the fitness of model MAPE (Mean Absolute Percentage Error) was used. By SAMAI method MAPE were 18.82%, 13.392%, 14.516% and 27.637% respectively for of blood donation, blood issue, RDP issue and FFP issue for data set I. By Simple Average method MAPE were 20.05%, 12.09%, 29.06% and 34.85%, respectably. By Ratio-to-Trend method MAPE were 21.08%, 21.65%, 25.62% and 39.95% respectively. By SARIMA method MAPE were 12.99%, 19.59%, 37.15% and 31.94% respectively. The average MAPE was lower in data set II by all tested method and overall MAPE was lower by SAMAI method. The SAMAI method is simple and easy to perform. It can be used in the forecasting of blood components demand in medical institution without knowledge of advanced statistics.
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