A tactical model for planning the production and distribution of fresh produce

Ahumada, Omar; Villalobos, J. René

doi:10.1007/s10479-009-0614-4

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“…A case study for melons and sweet corn discusses strategies to design a FPSC such as the responsiveness and efficiency of the SC (Blackburn and Scudder, 2009). Ahumada and Villalobos (2011b) develop an integrated tactical planning model for a FPSC to incorporate product decay in addition to traditional factors such as price estimation and resource availability.…”

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Modeling disruption in a fresh produce supply chain

MacKenzie

Apte

2017

IJLM

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Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to quantify elements that make fresh produce supply chains vulnerable to disruptions and to quantify the benefits of different disruption management strategies.Design/methodology/approach-This paper develops a mathematical model of a disruption in a fresh produce supply chain and analyzes the relationships among variables. Findings-The model determines the optimal safety stock as a function of the perishability of the produce, the length of time it takes to find the contamination, the level of demand during the disruption, and the amount of produce that can be rerouted. Applying the model to the 2006 E. coli spinach contamination reveals that the drop in customer demand for fresh spinach plays the largest role in Dole losing sales.Research limitations-The model includes several parameters that may be difficult to estimate.Future models can incorporate uncertainty that is inherent in supply chain disruptions. 2Practical implications-The model in this paper can help a supply chain manager explore the trade-offs of different disruption management strategies. For example, a supply chain manager can determine the value of holding additional safety stock versus trying to improve traceability in the supply chain.Originality/value-This paper quantifies and models insights delivered in the qualitative analyses of fresh produce supply chain disruptions. The theoretical contributions include an analysis of the interaction among safety stock, levels of demand, communication, and traceability parameters in order to help supply chain managers evaluate different strategies to mitigate the effects of contaminated produce.3

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Modeling disruption in a fresh produce supply chain

MacKenzie

Apte

2017

IJLM

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“…Ahumada and Villalobos [38] considered transportation modes in their integrated production and distribution optimization models. They proposed that supply chain partners need to choose from the transportation modes of truck, rail, or air to distribute their packaged perishable products under different conditions.…”

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Quality and Operations Management in Food Supply Chains: A Literature Review

Huang

et al. 2018

Journal of Food Quality

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We present a literature review on quality and operations management problems in food supply chains. In food industry, the quality of the food products declines over time and should be addressed in the supply chain operations management. Managing food supply chains with operations management methods not only generates economic benefit, but also contributes to environmental and social benefits. The literature on this topic has been burgeoning in the past few years. Since 2005, more than 100 articles have been published on this topic in major operations research and management science journals. In this literature review, we concentrate on the quantitative models in this research field and classify the related articles into four categories, that is, storage problems, distribution problems, marketing problems, and food traceability and safety problems. We hope that this review serves as a reference for interested researchers and a starting point for those who wish to explore it further.

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“…Balkhia et al [22], Hou [23] and Yu et al [2] have studied distribution systems in order to minimize the total costs of warehousing and transportation, maintaining the quality requirements of the products; furthermore, they developed mathematical models with the production, harvesting, and decomposition process of fresh products. Ahumada et al [24] discussed the packaging and distribution of fresh products, including the limitations of warehouses and a loss function in the objective function.…”

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Warehousing and transportation logistics of mango in Colombia: A system dynamics model

2017

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This paper evaluates the incidence of packing asymmetries, resulted from the use of heterogeneous packaging materials by different mango supply chain actors in Colombia, on performance measures of inventory, transportation, and quality. A system dynamics model was proposed based on the literature review on inventory and transportation logistics, the studies on asymmetries in supply chain, packing, and packaging, and the results of the characterization of the fruit chain logistics in various departments of Colombia from 2012 to 2013. We used the proposed model to test the following hypothesis: “The asymmetry in the packaging, derived from the actors’ individual management, creates inefficiencies that may be avoid if the packaging of the fruit is done thinking on the chain”. The developed simulation model allowed us to prove the proposed dynamic hypothesis. Forrester’s model includes four echelons for the supply chain: production, processing, wholesale, and retail, as well as warehousing, transportation and information.

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A tactical model for planning the production and distribution of fresh produce

Cited by 164 publications

References 17 publications

Modeling disruption in a fresh produce supply chain

Modeling disruption in a fresh produce supply chain

Quality and Operations Management in Food Supply Chains: A Literature Review

Warehousing and transportation logistics of mango in Colombia: A system dynamics model

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