News & events

A new book on “Sustainable Food Supply Chain”

Posted on July 11, 2019July 11, 2019 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

Sustainable Food Supply Chains 1st Edition, Edited by Riccardo Accorsi and Riccardo Manzini Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies Description Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies provides integrated and practicable solutions that aid planners and entreprene...

BigDSSAgro 2019

Posted on June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 by giulia.baruffaldi2@unibo.it

The BigDSSAgro 2019 conference is the third conference in the series devoted to decision support systems in agriculture, which combine Operational Research methods and Big Data techniques to support many real-world decision-making problems in small scale farming, industrial agriculture, smart farms, agri-business supply chains, land use and environmental protection, among ...

Companies tour 2019

Posted on May 28, 2019June 13, 2019 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

On May 15, 2019, a selection of the best industrial engineering students from the University of Bologna takes part in a special tour of the infrastructures devoted to the international distribution of Italian wine in Livorno thanks to the collaboration of Giorgio Gori Group, a leading company providing logistic services for wine supply chain worldwide, and the Food Supply...

Company Visit 2019 Interporto Amerigo Vespucci & Wine Supply Chain

Posted on April 17, 2019April 17, 2019 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

On May 15, 2019, a selection of the best industrial engineering students from the University of Bologna will take part in a special tour of the Amerigo Vespucci Interport in Livorno thanks to the collaboration of Giorgio Gori Group, a leading company providing logistic services for wine supply chain worldwide, and the Food Supply Chain Center at UniBO.

2018 sustainability young investigator award to Riccardo Accorsi

Posted on April 17, 2019April 17, 2019 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

Download The Food Supply chain Center is happy to announce that the winner of the 2018 Sustainability Young Investigator Award promoted by the leading International Journal "sustainability" (Impact Factor 2.075) is Dr. Riccardo Accorsi. "Dr. Accorsi is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum, University...

WFSC 2018 – Australia

Posted on August 23, 2018June 4, 2019 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

5th International Workshop on Food Supply Chains Melbourne, Australia, 4th – 6th December 2018 Held in conjunction with the 26thASOR National Conference for the Australian Society of Operations Research and Defence Operations Research Symposium (ASOR/DORS) 2018 ______________________________________________________________________________ Organizing Institute ...

Universal Robots – March, 2018

Posted on June 7, 2018August 23, 2018 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

Universal Robots – the leading international company in production and application of cobot (collaborative robot) for industry and automation of production system from Wikipedia: A cobot[1] or co-robot[2] (from collaborative robot) is a robot intended to physically interact with humans in a shared workspace.[3] This is in contrast with other robots, designed t...

Companies tour 2018

Posted on May 13, 2018May 13, 2018 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

prof.Riccardo Manzini organized the visits of two important companies on April 2018 with a selection of students from Mechanical Engineering and Management Engineering of the School of Engineering and Architecture of Bologna University System Logistics - Fiorano Modenese (Modena, Italy)System Logistics is a leading global supplier of innovative solutions of intra-l...

Brivio & Viganò dec. 2017

Posted on January 24, 2018January 26, 2018 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

Brivio & Viganò at UniBO - the leading italian company in food logistics On december 20, 2017 Dr.Eng. Efrem Terraneo, Project Manager in Brivio & Viganò, leading Italian player in the sector of Distribution and Integrated Logistics for food products, presents the new temperature-controlled distribution center - CEDI to the students of Mechanical Engineering of Bologn...

FSC presentation at “Il trasporto degli alimenti fra logistica ed e-commerce”

Posted on November 22, 2017 by andrea.gallo7@unibo.it

On November, 14th, two dissertations have been presented at "Il trasporto degli alimenti fra logistica ed e-commerce". These dissertations were prepared from two students within a partnership between the Food Supply Chain Center (Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna) and OITA (Osservatorio Interdisciplinare Trasporti Alimenti). Along with the introduction...

Food Supply Chain Center at “Innovazione e tecnologia per la logistica di domani” in Milano

Posted on November 16, 2017November 16, 2017 by andrea.gallo7@unibo.it

On November, 20th, the Food Supply Chain Center will participate at "Innovazione e tecnologia per la logistica di domani". The event organized by the distribution company Brivio & Viganò will be held in San Siro stadium, in Milano. A delegation of the Food Supply Chain Center will present original studies on the storage and distribution of perishable products dealing wit...

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...

EcoPackLab for sustainable and innovative packaging system

Posted on June 30, 2017 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

The EcoPackLab project aims to create a sustainable and innovative packaging system for quality improvement of packed food during its storage. The project makes use of both University of Bologna laboratories and industrial supply chains, by means of an integrated and interdisciplinary approach on quality, safety, sustainability and logistics efficiency, that takes advantage...

Call for papers on “Food Supply Chain & Food Industry”, Special Issue on SUSTAINABILITY – int.Journal ISI-SCOPUS

Posted on April 2, 2017April 5, 2017 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

Sustainability in Food Supply Chain and Food Industry Sustainability in Food Supply Chain and Food Industry (link to the flyer), sustainability Journal (Impact Factor, 1.343 - 2015) Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2017 This is a call for papers for contributions on food supply chain and food industry in a very important international journal: ...

Visit for students 2017 – IKEA & Amazon

Posted on February 23, 2017February 23, 2017 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

On March 21, 2017 a group of about 30 students from Bologna University (Management Engineering and mechanical Engineering) visited two important distribution centers in Piacenza (Italy): DC MPX5 of Amazon Italia DC2 of IKEA.

DEADLINE EXTENSION: Call for papers – SDM’2017 International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing Bologna, Italy 26-28 April 2017

Posted on November 16, 2016November 7, 2017 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

DEADLINE EXTENSION (November 30, 2016) SDM'2017 International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing Bologna, Italy 26-28 April 2017 We are pleased to announce the SDM17 taking place in Bologna, Italy, from April 26 to April 28 ,2017, organized by KES International in partnership with Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. SDM-2017 will con...

Food Supply Chain Center on safety and quality, invited by Granarolo Group

Posted on October 21, 2016November 19, 2016 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

Next November 8, 2016 The Food Supply Chain Center will take part to the following event on food safety and food supply chain. link to the event details

Industry 4.0, BigData & data analytics

Posted on October 12, 2016October 12, 2016 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

October 12, 2016 - Cineca Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna) Riccardo Accorsi (Department of Industrial Engineering) and Marco Patella (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) present a speech by the title "Big data and data analytics: challanges and opportunities" including Food Supply Chain. Link to the event

July & August 2016 – NEW Temperature and vibrations monitoring TASKS

Posted on August 8, 2016October 12, 2016 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

During July and August 2016, The Food Supply Chain Center is monitoring several journeys 6, i.e. international shipments, of referee and standard containers of wines and milk-based products. Some exemplifying shipments: .Italy-Sweden, multi-modal transportations and multiple packages .Italy-South Korea .Italy-New Zeland .Italy-Shanghai (rferee container+4°C) For ...

WFSC 2016 – South Africa

Posted on July 10, 2016June 4, 2019 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

4th International Workshop on Food Supply Chains Lanzerac Hotel, Stellenbosch, South Africa, September 11th - 16th, 2016 Food for thought: Information for Smart Solutions to solve Big Problems Held in conjunction with the South African Operations Research Society’s 45th annual conference ISBN 978-956-368-363-9 ______________________________________________________...