An intelligent collaborative environment for sharing information in a blood supply network

This paper presents a proposal of a collaborative model for a supply chain of a blood bank, which uses the concept of Collective Intelligence to integrate the various actors, which include donors, hospitals, clinics and government. They need to share information about: (i) types of blood in supply channel, (ii) production and inventory needs of the Blood Center process; (iii) blood component needs in the demand channel, and, as well as, (iv) financial resources from supporting entities of society, like government. The paper reviews the aspects of the blood supply chain of a Blood Center, describing the aspects of the interrelated customer-supplier relationship. Then the blood components related to forecasting demanded by downstream of the chain are introduced. We shortly discuss its impact on the inventory levels of the Blood Center, and the third part includes a brief discussion on mechanisms to make this chain a more collaborative Ecosystem with the use of Collective Intelligence.