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CASE STUDY INFO:
Alshamrani et al. [5] study the reverse logistics network for blood distribution with the American Red Cross, where containers in which blood is delivered from a central processing unit to customers in one time period are available for return to the central processing unit the following period.
Containers not picked in the period following their delivery incur a penalty cost. This leads to a dynamic logistics planning problem, where in each period the vehicle dispatcher needs to design a multistop vehicle route while determining the number of containers to be picked up at each stop. A heuristic procedure is developed to solve the route design-pickup strategy problem.