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Resilience in Food Supply Chain production & distribution – 2021

Posted on August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

The Food Supply Chain Center is working on a strategic project for CAMST Soc.Coop, a leading international company on food catering. The project deals with the redesign and optimisation of the production & distribution system in response to the COVID-19 pandemic effects by the development and application of innovative models and methods to support decision making in th...

A traceability-support system to control safety and sustainability indicators in food distribution – 2021

Posted on August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

Food Control 2021 Elsevier - journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/foodcont A. Gallo, R. Accorsi, A. Goh , H. Hsiao , R. Manzini ABSTRACT Whilst policymakers encourage companies to control food distribution and ensure products’ safety and compliance with regulations, the fragmentation of food supply chains, made of multiple stage...

A closed-loop packaging network design model to foster infinitely reusable and recyclable containers in food industry

Posted on July 21, 2020July 21, 2020 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

A closed-loop packaging network design model to foster infinitely reusable and recyclable containers in food industry International Journal - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2020 Elsevier. Impact Factor 3.660 Free ACCESS to the paper till September 2020 Abstract The current public and private policies pursuing environmental sustainability targets mand...

Seminar on logistics, december 2019

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

On December 5, 2019 two important companies (Interporto Bologna and Caterpillar CAT Prodotti Stradali) presented some logistic and innovative projects in the field of indoor logistics (material, handling and storage/warehousing) and intermodal transportation. In particular, Interporto Bologna presented some strategic issues and activities conducted on transportation, sto...

2022 Int.conf. on Food & Wine Supply Chain – ITALY

Posted on November 19, 2019August 23, 2021 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

Conference Leaflet The 6th International Conference on Food and Wine Supply Chain (scheduled in 2022 due to Covid) addresses the topic of design and planning of sustainable food supply chains from a multidisciplinary and systemic food ecosystem perspective involving all stages from growers to consumers. It aims to better understand foo...

Transfrigoroute International 2019

Posted on November 3, 2019November 3, 2019 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

The Food Supply Chain Center at the Transfrigoroute International General Meeting 2O19 in Naples - September 27, 2019. Professor Riccardo Manzini illustrate the most critical and significant issues and challenges in food supply chain and in transportation of perishable products. Lecture, professor Riccardo Manzini, Food Supply Chain Center at UniBO link to tra...

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 ...

tour in Giorgio Gori & Interporto Amerigo Vespucci 2019

Posted on May 28, 2019November 19, 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: ...