Improving logistics operations across the food industry supply chain

Aghazadeh, Seyed‐Mahmoud

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“…Developing a link between companies ensures a long-term business relationship and enables the companies optimize their profit (Aghazadeh, 2004). The trends of relationships between the partners in the food industry are business-to-business and e-commerce systems.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The trends of relationships between the partners in the food industry are business-to-business and e-commerce systems. The efficient link between partners in food retailers, manufacturers and wholesalers is important for cost reduction (Aghazadeh, 2004). These facts indicate the importance of network integration for the local food producers to improve their overall efficiency.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The efficiency of logistics management has a positive impact on the success of food producers (Brimer, 1995), because, logistics greatly affect the profit of producers, the price of food produces, and the satisfaction of consumers. Effective logistic management requires delivering the right product, in the right quantity, in the right condition, to the right place, at the right time, for the right cost (Aghazadeh, 2004). During the last 30 years, different firms have changed their strategies and logistics organization to suit to the centralization of production and distribution of goods, reduction of inventory and time based competition, and a positive change for environmental performance (Groothedde et al, 2005;Aronsson and Brodin, 2006;Töyli et al, 2008).…”

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Cluster building and logistics network integration of local food supply chain

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Gebresenbet

2011

Biosystems Engineering

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SAMMARYIn the agriculture sector, globalization of food production has considerably influenced the food supply system by increasing distance the food has to be transported to reach consumers. This situation not only has increased emissions of greenhouse gases but also has reduced the relationship between local food producers and consumers, affecting local food producers, their environment and culture.In this study, local food supply chain characteristics were investigated using data from some local food producers and existing large-scale food distribution centers from entire Sweden. A coordinated distribution system of locally produced food was developed to improve logistics efficiency; reduce environmental impact; increase potential market for local food producers and to improve traceability of food origin for consumers. For this, integrated logistics networks were developed by forming clusters of producers and determining the optimum collection centers of food products for each cluster. These food collection centers could be linked to food producers, food distributors and consumers/retailers enabling coordinated distribution of local food products and facilitated the integration of food distribution from the collection centers into large scale food distribution channels.The analysis carried out using tools such as Geographic Information System and Route LogiX software indicated that integrating the logistics activities in the delivery system of local food has advantages. It reduced the transport distance and time and the number routes of food collection and distribution. The possibility of integration of local food distributions into large scale food distribution channels increased the potential market for local food producers. These indicate its positive impact on environmental issue and traceability of food quality and origin. However, in this study, the locations of the customers of each producer and the existing delivery routes from producers to customers could not be mapped due to the shortage of data. Therefore, site specific and more detailed further studies have been recommended. II ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS III ABSTRACTFood supply chain is the current focus in terms of food safety and environment. The objective of this study was to investigate the local food supply chain characteristics and develop a coordinated distribution system to improve logistics efficiency, reduce environmental impact, increase potential market for local food producers and improve traceability of food origin for consumers. The study was based on data from 90 local food producers and 19 existing large scale food distribution centers (LSFDC) from all over Sweden.Location analysis was done using geographic information system (GIS), to map locations of producers and LSFDCs; to build cluster (C) of producers; and to determine optimal product collection centers (CC). The route analysis was carried out using Route Logix software, firstly for the case of produce collection from farms to CCs based on two scenarios: (1) producers transport their...

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“…The traditional methodologies of handling food market distribution through storage and transportation of perishable food products (Aghazadeh 2004) is not sufficient on its own in today's sustainable environment. In addition to ensuring a regular and complete coverage of all facilities in the supply chain (Aghazadeh 2004) significant management of the carbon issues in the distribution system is also required (Benjaafar et al 2013). Wu and Dunn (1995) focus on the use of proactive environmental management within the logistics framework.…”

Section: Distribution Systems and The Food Supply Chainmentioning

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“…Efficient logistics and technologies are critical success factors for distribution systems in most supply chain networks, including food (Tarantilis et al 2005). Traditionally, the critical success factors for an effective distribution system included meeting the requirement of the demand side of the supply chain through delivery of good quality products in appropriate quantities to the right place using the optimal path at the right time with optimal costs (Aghazadeh 2004). However, distribution systems based solely on this singular dimension have over time begun to become obsolete as it does not consider the environmental impact of the system and increasing governmental regulations.…”

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A case analysis of a sustainable food supply chain distribution system—A multi-objective approach

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Bhattacharya

Byrne

2014

International Journal of Production Economics

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Abstract:Sustainable supply chain management is a topical area which is continuing to grow and evolve. Within supply chains, downstream distribution from producers to customers plays a significant role in the environmental performance of production supply chains. With consumer consciousness growing in the area of sustainable food supply, food distribution needs to embrace and adapt to improve its environmental performance, while still remaining economically competitive. With a particular focus on the dairy industry, a robust solution approach is presented for the design of a capacitated distribution network for a two-layer supply chain involved in the distribution of milk in Ireland. In particular the green multiobjective optimisation model minimises CO2 emissions from transportation and total costs in the distribution chain. These distribution channels are analysed to ensure the non-dominated solutions are distributed along the Pareto fronts. A multi-attribute decision-making approach, TOPSIS, has been used to rank the realistic feasible transportation routes resulting from the trade-offs between total costs and CO 2 emissions. The refined realistic solution space allows the decision-makers to geographically locate the sustainable transportation routes. In addition to geographical mapping the decision maker is also presented with a number of alternative analysed scenarios which forcibly open closed distribution routes to build resiliency into the solution approach. In terms of model performance, three separate GA based optimisers have been evaluated and reported upon. In the case presented NSGA-II was found to outperform its counterparts of MOGA-II and HYBRID.

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Improving logistics operations across the food industry supply chain

Cited by 47 publications

References 3 publications

Cluster building and logistics network integration of local food supply chain

Cluster building and logistics network integration of local food supply chain

A case analysis of a sustainable food supply chain distribution system—A multi-objective approach

Disaster Risk Reduction in Mexico

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