Search results for "Supply chain optimization"

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Alternatives to the traditional waste management: Food recovery for human non-profit organizations

2015

Food supply chains are affected by losses of products which become poorly attractive for the consumers as they get close to their expiration date, therefore remaining unsold on the shelves. Such situation is ethically depreciable considering that many undernourished people rely on non-profit organizations for their survival. Despite of this situation, food recovery through the supply chain is still scarcely practiced, and the potential benefits achievable are frequently ignored. The paper presents a mathematical model for the coordination of the supply chain operating a food recovery policy. The model determines the optimal time for withdrawing the products from the shelves and the quantity…

Coordination system Food losses recovery Supply chain optimization Waste management
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The expected value of the traceability information

2015

Abstract Recent regulations on agri-food traceability prescribe traceability throughout the entire supply chain, in order to ensure consumers’ safety and product quality. This has led producers and retailers to consider the opportunity to improve the firm's reputation and consumer confidence through the implementation of traceability systems designed not only to satisfy the legal requirements, but also to track the quality of the products through the supply chain for optimization purposes. However the actual implementation of such systems depends on the possibility of gathering specific information related to the product quality. Nowadays, innovative and non invasive technologies such as th…

Information Systems and ManagementGeneral Computer ScienceTraceabilityRequirements traceabilitybusiness.industryComputer scienceSupply chainManagement Science and Operations ResearchIndustrial and Manufacturing EngineeringProfit (economics)Traceability systems Quality control Supply chain optimizationRisk analysis (engineering)Modeling and SimulationSettore ING-IND/17 - Impianti Industriali MeccaniciRadio-frequency identificationConsumer confidence indexMarketingSupply chain optimizationbusiness
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Economic benefits from food recovery at the retail stage: An application to Italian food chains

2013

The food supply chain is affected by losses of products near to their expiry date or damaged by improper transportation or production defects. Such products are usually poorly attractive for the consumer in the target market even if they maintain their nutritional properties. On the other hand undernourished people face every day the problem of fulfilling their nutritional needs usually relying on non-profit organizations. In this field the food recovery enabling economic benefits for donors is nowadays seen as a coherent way to manage food products unsalable in the target market for various causes and thus destined to be discarded and disposed to landfill thus representing only a cost. Des…

Waste managementFood industrybusiness.industrySupply chainFood donationSupply chain optimizationModels TheoreticalEconomic benefitsProfit (economics)Food SupplyFood chainItalyFood losses recoveryRecyclingLivestockbusinessSupply chain optimizationWaste Management and DisposalWaste managementTarget marketIndustrial organization
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