MatchingPPE swMATH ID: 43849 Software Authors: Samorani, Michele; Bala, Ram; Jacob, Rohit; He, Shuhan Description: A software package and data set for the personal protective equipment matching problem during COVID-19 During the COVID-19 pandemic, Get Us PPE provided a platform aimed at connecting prospective donors of personal protective equipment (PPE) to prospective recipients of PPE. Requests by donors and recipients were collected over time, and periodically, the PPE matching problem was solved in order to instruct each donor to ship a certain quantity of PPE to a given recipient. The objectives of the PPE matching problem include maximizing the recipients” fill rate, minimizing the total shipping distance, minimizing the holding time of PPE, and minimizing the number of shipments of each donor. This paper presents a software framework to facilitate the development of methodologies to solve the PPE matching problem and their testing on a real-world data set collected by Get Us PPE during the COVID-19 pandemic. Both software and data set are available on GitHub. Homepage: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4141159 Source Code: https://github.com/samorani/MatchingPPE Keywords: COVID-19; PPE supply chain; PPE matching problem Related Software: GitHub; pandas Cited in: 1 Publication Standard Articles 1 Publication describing the Software, including 1 Publication in zbMATH Year A software package and data set for the personal protective equipment matching problem during COVID-19. Zbl 07625901Samorani, Michele; Bala, Ram; Jacob, Rohit; He, Shuhan 2022 Cited by 4 Authors 1 Bala, Ram 1 He, Shuhan 1 Jacob, Rohit 1 Samorani, Michele Cited in 1 Serial 1 INFORMS Journal on Computing Cited in 1 Field 1 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) Citations by Year