How to Support Group Decision Making in Horticulture: An Approach Based on the Combination of a Centralized Mathematical Model and a Group Decision Support System

Zaraté, Pascale; Alemany, M. M. E.; Pino, Mariana del; Esteso, Ana; Camilleri, Guy

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18819-1_7

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“…Indeed, one of the persisting challenges to take advantage of the full potential of the data is to achieve not only the integration of these technologies but also their interoperability. Diversity of stakeholders integrating agri-food supply chains with different interests and characteristics make difficult to find solutions that fit all those involved, so group decision-making tools should be developed [153]. Moreover, when these solutions require significant investments and there are stakeholders, such as small farmers with a limited budget.…”

Section: Technological Impactmentioning

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Agri-food 4.0: A survey of the supply chains and technologies for the future agriculture

Lezoche

Hernández

Ruiz

et al. 2020

Computers in Industry

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income.pdf 4.0 should help meeting sustainable challenges by increasing the agri-food supply chain stakeholders revenues as well as decreasing their pressure for handling complex and external factors they cannot control, such as weather, market behaviours and policies, but also to react on time by visualising current trends in needs. This paper focus principally on the factory farm model issued from the European and north American style. In those typologies of farms the Industry 4.0 elements can be introduced and merged with the agricultural domain to create the Agri-Food 4.0. The focus is more specialised on the industrial farming although the Agri-Food 4.0 is started to be adapted also to the organic and silvo-pasture paradigms. Thus, this paper, considering a review over than two hundred papers, provides a contribution to knowledge by establishing the linkages between new 4.0 trends in technologies and Agri-Food Supply Chain Challenges, which opens the 4.0 research field for a multidisciplinary work. The choice of the literature review methodology focused firstly on key words related to the Agri-food technology, then the second approach was to focus on selected journals and at the end we looked for the data-based repository and the linked publications. To accomplish this, the structure in this paper is as follows: in the first place, a compressive state of the art of Agri-Food 4.0 related technologies is covered. In the second place, a review and contribution coming from digital technologies to the new supply chain methods in Agri-Food shows linkages with next trends and technologies. Next, and linked to the agri-food supply chain challenges, the fourth section presents new trends and models in agri-food supply chains, especially in the domain of risk management, collaboration, governance, cold chain management, globalization, information and communication technologies, Logistics, supply chain structures and sustainable agri-food supply chains. Finally, the fifth section covers the main conclusions, visions and perspectives for this novel research. 2-Agri-food 4.0 and Technologies a State of the Art The agricultural sector has been active in digital innovation for decades already. Especially the advances in Precision Agriculture, remote sensing, robots, farm management information

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Section: Technological Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Agri-food 4.0: A survey of the supply chains and technologies for the future agriculture

Lezoche

Hernández

Ruiz

et al. 2020

Computers in Industry

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339

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“…Although at first glance it may seem that chain members may be unwilling to participate in this type of decision-making, more and more chains are establishing collaborative mechanisms among their members to enjoy the benefits of centralised decision-making. Examples of this type of mechanism are the signing of contracts in which retailers commit to buy all (or part of) the crop from farmers if they respect centrally defined planting areas for each vegetable (Federgruen, Lall & Şimşek, 2019), or the use of group decision support systems to select from a number of centralised solutions which of them will be finally implemented in the company (Zaraté, Alemany, del Pino, Esteso & Camilleri, 2019).…”

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Increasing the sustainability of a fresh vegetables supply chain through the optimization of funding programs: A multi-objective mathematical programming approach

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Alemany

Ortíz

et al. 2022

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Purpose: This research develops a model to improve the quality and freshness of sold vegetables through a funding program between farmers and retailers. Through this program, retailers who are interested in the distribution of first quality vegetables provide funds to farmers to increase their production this type of vegetables through the acquisition of new machinery, technology, or training.Design/methodology/approach: The problem is solved through a multi-objective mathematical programming model that simultaneously optimizes the supply chain profits, the waste of vegetables, the economic unfairness among farmers, the unfairness in the distribution of funds, and the freshness of sold vegetables. The ?-constraint method is used to obtain several non-dominated solutions to the problem after linearizing the non-lineal equations related to the unfairness objectives.Findings: Results show that it is possible to improve the indicators related to the vegetable waste, the economic unfairness, the unfairness in the distribution of funds and the freshness of vegetables while maintaining similar to optimal profits for the supply chain. Interesting trade-offs between the five objectives are identified, which can be used by supply chain members to select the most appropriate solution to be implemented in the real supply chain.Originality/value: This research models aspects relevant to the agri-food sector that have not been previously modelled for the problem under study. The main novelties of this paper are the consideration of the limited shelf life of the vegetables as well as the requirement of ensuring a minimum freshness at the moment of their sale, the price dependence on the quality and freshness of vegetables, the optimization of vegetable waste and the freshness of vegetables sold, as well as the joint optimization of the five previously defined objectives.

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“…Regarding technical challenges, Zaraté et al ( 2019) stated that it is necessary not only to integrate technologies but also to ensure their interoperability [105]. The diversity of interests and characteristics in the implementation and the heterogeneity of the sector make a single solution difficult.…”

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Study and Analysis of the Implementation of 4.0 Technologies in the Agri-Food Supply Chain: A State of the Art

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Industry 4.0 is changing the industrial environment. Particularly, the emerging Industry 4.0 technologies can improve the agri-food supply chain throughout all its stages. This study aims to highlight the benefits of implementing Industry 4.0 in the agri-food supply chain. First, it presents how technologies enhance the agri-food supply chain development. Then, it identifies and highlights the most common challenges that Industry 4.0 implementation faces in agri-food’s environment. After that, it proposes key performance indicators to measure the advantages of this implementation. To achieve this, a systematic literature review was conducted. It combined conceptual and bibliometric analyses of 78 papers. As a result, the most suitable technologies were identified, e.g., Internet of Things, Big Data, blockchain and cyber physical systems. The most used indicators are proposed and the challenges of implementation were detected and classified in three groups, i.e., technical, educational and governmental. This paper highlights and exemplifies the benefits of implementing Industry 4.0 facing the lack of knowledge that exists nowadays. Moreover, it fulfils the gaps in literature, i.e., the lack of information about the implementation of technologies 4.0 or the description of the most relevant indicators for Industry 4.0 implementation.

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How to Support Group Decision Making in Horticulture: An Approach Based on the Combination of a Centralized Mathematical Model and a Group Decision Support System

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Agri-food 4.0: A survey of the supply chains and technologies for the future agriculture

Agri-food 4.0: A survey of the supply chains and technologies for the future agriculture

Increasing the sustainability of a fresh vegetables supply chain through the optimization of funding programs: A multi-objective mathematical programming approach

Study and Analysis of the Implementation of 4.0 Technologies in the Agri-Food Supply Chain: A State of the Art

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