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BigDSSAgro 2019

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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 ...
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WFSC 2013 – Chile

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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...
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Storage assignment in a perishable products warehouse, 2015-2016

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The projects is developed in collaboration with the company Due Torri Spa. The aim of this study is the development of an original approach to support decision making during the assignment of products to storage locations in order to minimize the total cost of handling with a particular focus on picking activities.
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PhD Doc. on FSC

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The FSC Center supports the formation of PhD Students, whereof research topics are related to the operations management for food products along global supply chains. PhD Students have the opportunity of collaborating with company of the territory in order to set up win-win partnerships with the twofold objectives of developing new logistics solution and finding opportu...
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The Food Supply Chain Center flayer

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This is a flyer summarizing the laboratory FSC Center activities for monitoring physical and environmental stresses (1), conducting simulating campaigns of processing and international shipments (2) and measuring the quality and safety of the product at the "table of the final consumer" by ad-hoc sensitive and organoleptic analyses (3). If you are interested contact the Center....
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Food Supply Chain Center at Expo 2015, KIP Int. School and Cittaslow International

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The Food Supply Chain Project have presented the main research advancements at the KIP FAO ONU pavillon, EXPO 2015, Milan, on July 23-24. The discussing topics embraced and met the goals of Expo 2015, aiming to respond to the raising questions of how feeding the planet with quality food in a sustainable way. The Food Supply Chain project intends to highlight the role of log...
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Storage of perishable products (permanent project/lab.)

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A critical issue in logistics and FSC is the design, management and control of warehousing systems. Recent contributions are presented by the Food Supply Chain Center In particular, Accorsi et al. (2014a) present a supporting decision tool for the design and optimisation of a warehousing system with a special focus on storage allocation and storage assignment problems, ...
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EC Programme, 2015

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FUTUREMED is a project under the MED Programme that aims to improve the competitiveness of port systems in the MED area by improving accessibility through technology and procedural innovations, and guaranteeing sustainability of transport. The idea focuses on the realization of interoperable management information systems and on the reduction of externalities. The project in...
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Contacts

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Department of Industrial Engineering Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna University Viale del Risorgimento, 2 40136 Bologna   Prof. Eng. Riccardo Manzini Director of the Food Supply Chain Center at UniBO Director of the Warehousing Center at UniBO Professor of Logistics, Operations and Maintenance Engineering E-mail: riccardo.manzini@unibo.it   Eng...
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Low Carbon Food Supply Chain

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Low Carbon Food Supply Chain Global food demand will double by 2050 and strain agro-food supply chains. The increasing relevance of non-agrarian activities within the food supply chain mandates a systemic perspective for addressing sustainability. We consider the food supply chain as an ecosystem and define more inclusive boundaries. We present a multi-disciplinary design f...
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