Application of planning models in the agri-food supply chain: A review
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...Consideration of perishability in the supply chain has received increased attention in both practice and academic researches (Ahumada and Villalobos, 2009; Akkerman et al., 2010). The first comprehensive review on perishable products is found in Nahmias (1982). Also, Goyal and Giri (2001) proposed an excellent review of the classification of perishable products and the policies needed to manage them....
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...Consideration of perishability in the supply chain has received increased attention in both practice and academic researches (Ahumada and Villalobos, 2009; Akkerman et al., 2010)....
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...The selection of transportation modes is also a main focus of Ahumada and Villalobos (2009b), who study the production and distribution of packaged fresh produce....
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...The selection of transportation modes is also a main focus of Ahumada and Villalobos (2009b), who study the production and distribution of packaged fresh produce. After packaging the products, the supply chain consists of several more stages in which choices have to be made on using truck, rail or air to transport the products. The authors also include product quality degradation in the model, both in terms of a limited storage time and in terms of a decreasing value of the product over time (based on a linear decrease during the shelf life). Using an index to keep track of the harvest period, the authors are able to track the shelf life. In a typical aggregate flow planning model this leads to the revision of the demand coverage constraint to only include products that have been harvested in the most recent periods (depending on the maximum number of periods the product can be stored). Regarding the consideration of product quality, a similar contribution is made by Ekşioǧlu and Jin (2006), who develop a general MILP approach for network planning of perishable products....
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...The part of the supply chain before that, the production and distribution of crops, has been the focus of other reviews, most recently Lowe and Preckel (2004) and Ahumada and Villalobos (2009a). An important characteristic of many food distribution systems is temperature control....
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...The selection of transportation modes is also a main focus of Ahumada and Villalobos (2009b), who study the production and distribution of packaged fresh produce. After packaging the products, the supply chain consists of several more stages in which choices have to be made on using truck, rail or air to transport the products. The authors also include product quality degradation in the model, both in terms of a limited storage time and in terms of a decreasing value of the product over time (based on a linear decrease during the shelf life). Using an index to keep track of the harvest period, the authors are able to track the shelf life. In a typical aggregate flow planning model this leads to the revision of the demand coverage constraint to only include products that have been harvested in the most recent periods (depending on the maximum number of periods the product can be stored). Regarding the consideration of product quality, a similar contribution is made by Ekşioǧlu and Jin (2006), who develop a general MILP approach for network planning of perishable products. Here, perishability is also modelled by a maximum number of periods the product can be stored. In a typical aggregate flow planning model, the authors add a constraint to make sure that product inventory in distribution centres is not used to cover the demand after having been stored beyond the specified maximum number of periods. It should be noted that this model assumes that the demands are satisfied from exactly one distribution centre and that the inventories are managed on a first-in-first-out basis. Finally, a recent contribution by Rong et al. (2010) presents a MILP approach for food production and distribution planning, explicitly modelling the quality change of products throughout the distribution network....
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...The part of the supply chain before that, the production and distribution of crops, has been the focus of other reviews, most recently Lowe and Preckel (2004) and Ahumada and Villalobos (2009a)....
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...Supply chain planning (SCP) is comprised, at the highest level, of three main decision-making functional processes: production planning, inventory control and physical distribution (Beamon, 1998)....
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...Supply chain planning (SCP) is comprised, at the highest level, of three main decision-making functional processes: production planning, inventory control and physical distribution (Beamon, 1998). Fleischmann et al. (2005) divides the supply chain activities into four functional areas: procurement, production, distribution and sales....
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..., 2002; Meixell and Gargeya, 2005), coordinating the activities of companies in the supply chain (Sarmiento and Nagi, 1999; Thomas and Griffin, 1996), planning transportation operations and developing information management systems (Stadler and Kilger, 2005; Helo and Szekely, 2005)....
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...This is mostly due to the added complexity of developing and finding solutions for integrated multi-echelon models (Thomas and Griffin, 1996)....
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...…(Goetschalckx et al., 2002; Meixell and Gargeya, 2005), coordinating the activities of companies in the supply chain (Sarmiento and Nagi, 1999; Thomas and Griffin, 1996), planning transportation operations and developing information management systems (Stadler and Kilger, 2005; Helo and…...
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