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To the best of our knowledge, the cross-fertilization of classification models issued from different methodologies is rarely tackled in the literature. This paper proposes some hybrid classification models based on both Genetic Algorithm (Metaheuristics) and two MCDM methods (Weighted Sum (WS) and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS)) to carry out the ABC inventory classification. To test the performance of the proposed classification models with respect to some existing models, a benchmark dataset from a Hospital Respiratory Therapy Unit (HRTU) is used. The computational results show that our proposed models outperformed the existing classification models according to some inventory performance measures. 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