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Plant design and control in food service industry. A multi-disciplinary decision-support system

Posted on September 28, 2018April 17, 2019 by alessandro.tufano2@unibo.it

Authors: Alessandro Tufano, Riccardo Accorsi, Federica Garbellini, Riccardo Manzini Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166361518303968 Abstract Every day, thousands of pupils, students, employees, and hospital patients eat food outside their homes that is cooked far from the place of consumption. The food service industry is responsible for supply...

On the design of cooperative vendors’ networks in retail food supply chains: a logistics-driven approach, 2018

Posted on December 17, 2017December 17, 2017 by alessandro.tufano2@unibo.it

READ THE PAPER HERE ABSTRACT This paper explores the impact of the adoption of a cooperative approach on retail food supply chains, whose performances are strongly affected by the daily planning of deliveries from vendors. This approach requires a horizontal communication among vendors, and might result in minimising the overall transport costs. Nevertheless, the ...

FSC @ “IL TRASPORTO DEGLI ALIMENTI FRA LOGISTICA ED E-COMMERCE”

Posted on November 14, 2017November 22, 2017 by alessandro.tufano2@unibo.it

A delegation of our Food Supply Chain Center participates at the national event "il trasporto degli alimenti fra logistica ed e-commerce" in Rome today 14th November 2017. We sit together with managers and practitioners from the industrial sector of e-commerce and perishable-products logistics to discuss about new trends and technologies on this industrial field. We prese...