Judgmental adjustments through supply integration for strategic partnerships in food chains

Building Strategic Partnerships for Aquatic Food Initiatives

The challenges facing the U.S. aquatic foods industry from production to processing to consumer points of purchase are complex and diverse. Consumers are vigilant of the safety and quality of all food products and the applications of biotechnological sciences. With changes in global trade policies and the creation of multilateral trade agreements, export opportunities and constraints are contin...

Integration of Logistics Network in Local Food Supply Chains

The demand for locally produced food is increasing as global food supply system has considerably affected the confidence of consumers by increasing tonne-kilometres, food safety risk, environmental impact, and disconnecting local food producers and consumers. However, local food suppliers are not in the position to compete with large scale food supply systems due to high logistics costs. The ov...

Traceability in Food for Supply Chains

Supply Chains present many research challenges in Computing, such as the modeling of theirs processes, communication problems between theirs components, logistics and processes management. This paper presents a supply chain traceability model that relies on a Web service-based architecture to ensure interoperability. Geared towards assisting quality control in the agricultural domain, the model...

Strategic Approaches to Domination in Supply Chains

Strategic Safety Stock Placement In Supply Chains

We consider a multi-stage production/distribution supply chain subject to stochastic demand. We formulate an optimization problem to determine where to place decoupling inventories, so-called strategic inventories, across the supply chain so as to minimize inventory holding costs subject to a service constraint for satisfying customer demand. We assume demand is normally distributed. For each s...