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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...

Tour in Elettric 80

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

On November 5, 2011. A group of PhD students and M.Sc. students in Mechanical Engineering and management Engineering visits Elettric80 SpA. Elettric80, established in Viano, Reggio Emilia, in the 1980s, is an international leading company specialized in the design and development of automated logistic solutions for daily consumer goods manufacturing companies in the ...

2021 Int.conf. on Food & Wine Supply Chain – ITALY

Posted on November 19, 2019July 21, 2020 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

Conference Leaflet The 6th International Conference on Food and Wine Supply Chain (scheduled in 2021 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 food ecosystems according to a holisti...

One Express Spa, April 2019

Posted on November 3, 2019November 19, 2019 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

On April 2019, Claudio Franceschelli (Ceo in One Express Spa), Luca Mandini (Hub & Traffic Manager in One Express Spa) and Giulia Baruffaldi (Researcher of Bologna University) presents One Express business model and new opportunities for pallet networks. This is the speech of the interesting session on innovative solutions for Logistics and Material Handling annualy organi...

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 ...

Inauguration of the new production plant – CUCE for CAMST in Parma

Posted on June 7, 2019June 7, 2019 by riccardo.manzini@unibo.it

The CUCE of the future In April 2019, the new production plant of CAMST located in Vicofertile (Parma) has been inaugurated. Camst is the Italian leading company in the production and distribution of food catering products in agreement th different production processes and technologies. This is the "CUCE of the future", the result of an innovative project of design, pla...

WFSC 2013 – Chile

Posted on May 29, 2019June 4, 2019 by giulia.baruffaldi2@unibo.it

2nd International Workshop on Food Supply Chains Viña del Mar, Chile, March 18th-21st, 2013 Meeting the challenges of the Food Supply Chain with Innovation ______________________________________________________________________________ Organizing Institute Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Conference chairman Alejandro F. Mac Cawley Sc...

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...

A hierarchical data architecture for sustainable food supply chain management and planning

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

Journal of Cleaner Production, dec.2018 Abstract The agro-food industry is one of the largest parts of the European Union's economy and faces economic and environmental stresses. While food traceability systems (FTSs) inform supply chain actors of product and logistical attributes, large scale implementations are scarce and are do not support active&nb...

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...

Warehouse management system customization and information availability in 3pl companies: A decision-support tool, 2018

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

Warehouse management system customization and information availability in 3pl companies: A decision-support tool Author(s): Giulia Baruffaldi, (Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padova, Vicenza, Italy) (Department of Industrial Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy) Riccardo Accorsi, (Depar...

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...

Picking efficiency and stock safety: A bi-objective storage assignment policy for temperature-sensitive products, 2017

Posted on December 6, 2017December 6, 2017 by andrea.gallo7@unibo.it

Read the paper (free access at this link) Highlights • Given the increasing attention of consumers to product quality and safetythis paper illustrates. • An original adaptive storage assignment policy for temperature-sensitive products. • An original bi-objective integer programming model addressing storage efficiency and safety. • A policy for warehouses t...

A climate driven decision-support model for the distribution of perishable products, 2017

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

see the paper (free-access) till sept.2017 Highlights • This paper addresses an open field of research in the supply chain of perishable products. • This paper provides a MILP model for the planning of processing and distribution operations in cold chains. • This paper incorporates the interactions of distribution constraints and climate conditions. ...

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...