Tackling Freshness in Supply Chain Planning of Perishable Products

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2011

Authors

Pedro Amorim (Author) FEUP; Hans-Otto Günther (Author) Other; B. Almada-Lobo (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: Proceedings of VII ALIO/EURO Workshop on Applied Combinatorial Optimization

Pages: 184-187

VII ALIO/EURO Workshop on Applied Combinatorial Optimization

Porto, Portugal, May 4-6

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Other engineering and technologies

CORDIS: Technological sciences

Other information

Resumo (PT): Integrated production and distribution planning has received a lot of attention throughout the years and its economic advantages over a decoupled approach is well documented. However, for highly perishable products this integrated approach has to include, further than the economic aspects, the intangible value of customers’ willingness to pay, which is related to product freshness. Hence, in this work we explore, through a multi-objective framework, the potential advantages of integrating these two intertwined planning problems at an operational level for this kind of products. We formulate integrated and decoupled models for the case where perishable goods have a fixed and a loose shelf-life in order to test our hypothesis. An illustrative example is used to interpret the models and the results show that the economic benefits derived from using an integrated approach are much dependent on the freshness level of products delivered that the planner is aiming at as well as on the type and degree of perishability the product is subject to.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific