Global supply chains make products travelling from vendors to final consumers around the world, being available almost in every place and at every time. Food products are shipped all over the world for their taste, and the particular environment where they grow. Unfortunately, the increasing food demand is altering the agriculture processes (i.e. seeding, harvesting, farming, etc.) and manufacturing from traditional approaches and techniques towards intensive methodologies and patterns, aimed to boost the yield of lands and crops. These worldwide-diffused routines lead to the fulfilment of the food products demand exportation towards rich western countries, at the expense of the exploitation of natural resources experienced by vendor countries, unsustainable in the long terms. On one side, in order to fulfil food demands considerations on the lands yield, the climatic conditions, the soil features and characteristics, the available natural energy sources, aimed to the management of land use over economic and environmental perspectives, are necessary. On the other, the management of the complex supply chain arranging the collection of food commodities, the manufacturing, the distribution and storage network, and the end-of-life cycles, significantly improves the quality, the efficiency, and the sustainability of the overall systems. The goal of this work is joining both sides of the coin, the agriculture and logistics concerns over a new land-network perspective for the design and management of a sustainable FSC. Such aspects are taken into account by a set of mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) models to achieve the economical and environmental sustainability of the overall close-loop FSC.

Close-loop land-network modelling for sustainable food supply chain

BORTOLINI, MARCO;GAMBERI, MAURO
2013

Abstract

Global supply chains make products travelling from vendors to final consumers around the world, being available almost in every place and at every time. Food products are shipped all over the world for their taste, and the particular environment where they grow. Unfortunately, the increasing food demand is altering the agriculture processes (i.e. seeding, harvesting, farming, etc.) and manufacturing from traditional approaches and techniques towards intensive methodologies and patterns, aimed to boost the yield of lands and crops. These worldwide-diffused routines lead to the fulfilment of the food products demand exportation towards rich western countries, at the expense of the exploitation of natural resources experienced by vendor countries, unsustainable in the long terms. On one side, in order to fulfil food demands considerations on the lands yield, the climatic conditions, the soil features and characteristics, the available natural energy sources, aimed to the management of land use over economic and environmental perspectives, are necessary. On the other, the management of the complex supply chain arranging the collection of food commodities, the manufacturing, the distribution and storage network, and the end-of-life cycles, significantly improves the quality, the efficiency, and the sustainability of the overall systems. The goal of this work is joining both sides of the coin, the agriculture and logistics concerns over a new land-network perspective for the design and management of a sustainable FSC. Such aspects are taken into account by a set of mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) models to achieve the economical and environmental sustainability of the overall close-loop FSC.
2013
International Workshop on Food Supply Chain (WFSC 2013)
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