Selecting food process designs from a supply chain perspective

Conceptual framework for designing agri-food supply chains under uncertainty by mathematical programming models

“…Whereas 16.7% of the papers proposed models to design SC of a specific product, such as pea-based novel protein food (Apaiah and Hendrix 2005), sugar cane (Jonkman et al 2017;Neungmatcha et al 2013), or dairy products (Jouzdani, Sadjadi, and Fathian 2013;Wouda et al 2002).…”

“…The suppliers considered by models were mainly farmers (Allaoui et al 2016; Ding 2011, 2013; Jouzdani, Sadjadi, and Fathian 2013; Mohammed and Wang 2017a, 2017b, 2017c; Zhao and Dou 2011; Zhao and Lv 2011). However, other models mentioned generic suppliers (Amorim et al 2016) and the rest detailed type of farmers, such as sugar cane fields (Neungmatcha et al 2013), crops (Accorsi et al 2016), supply regions (Jonkman et al 2017), or milk regions, defined as groups of farmers (Wouda et al 2002).…”

“…Zhao and Dou (2011) and Zhao and Lv (2011) included plants of semi-finished products and plants of finished products. All the other models referred to the processor stage when they mentioned packaging and processing plants (Accorsi et al 2016), factories (Amorim et al 2016;Ding 2013), processors (Apaiah and Hendrix 2005;Jonkman et al 2017), manufacturers (Baghalian, Rezapour, and Farahani 2013;Govindan et al 2014), production node/location (Etemadnia et al 2013(Etemadnia et al , 2015, production plants (Villa-Marulanda, Leguizamón, and Niño-Mora 2010; Wouda et al 2002), slaughterhouses (Boudahri et al 2011(Boudahri et al , 2012a(Boudahri et al , 2012b(Boudahri et al , 2013 In the analysed papers, the authors referred to the retailer stage as retailers (Allaoui et al 2016;Amorim et al 2016;Baghalian, Rezapour, and Farahani 2013;Govindan et al 2014;Mohammed and Wang 2017a, 2017b, 2017c, customer clusters, defined as a set of retailers (Boudahri et al 2011(Boudahri et al , 2012a(Boudahri et al , 2012b(Boudahri et al , 2013, points of demand (Accorsi et al 2016), delivery points (Colicchia et al 2016), customer/consumer zone (Di et al 2011; Reza-Nasiri and Davoudpour 2012), stores (Ding 2013), consumption nodes/locations (Etemadnia et al 2013(Etemadnia et al , 2015, customer points (Singh et al 2016), demand points (Xiaohui and Wen 2009) or points of requirement …”

Sugar beet leaves for functional ingredients

“…Biomass processing requires highly integrated supply chains to manage the seasonal nature of harvesting (WEF, 2010) and to create maximum value from agro-materials (Jonkman et al, 2017). While leaves have potential for the production of valuable components for foods, the production of pure proteins is probably not economically attractive.…”

“…However, the total use of leaves may well become attractive by producing functional fractions for high-value uses in food, and by using residual fractions for other, lower-value applications. The integrated approach proposed in this thesis deviates from the traditional production of a single primary product but it is expected to maximise the valorisation of leaves and avoid inefficient supply chains (Jonkman et al, 2017). The latter is achieved by identifying potential uses of the different fractions before the complete design of a process.…”