Improving the labile blood products transportation processes using physical Internet, complex event processing and process mining
Résumé
In order to collect whole blood from donors and distribute labile blood products to receivers, the French Blood Establishment (EFS) has to deal with several steps of transportation. Knowing the lifetime of each product, their storage conditions, their sensitiveness, and how vital they are for dozens of
patients, we demonstrate why it is so important to improve the transportation processes. Currently, these steps are not agile neither efficient. The main reason is that traceability is performed for each transport container but it is time consuming and all the data are not gathered in real time. In order to improve the tracking and monitoring of this activity with reliable data, we suggest using both a Physical Internet and lambda architecture approaches with complex event processing and Process Mining. Thanks to those ideas, we want to design a real time and a posteriori monitoring and surveillance module.