In the operational, strategic and tactical decision-making problems of agri-food supply chain, perishable nature commodities can represent a particular complexity problem. It is, therefore, appropriate to consider decision support tools that take into account characteristics products, needs requirements producers, sellers consumers. This paper presents green vehicle routing model for fresh agri...

This study considers deteriorating items having linear demand pattern, although this demand pattern is not new and lot of work has been done on this demand pattern. But this study is unique in itself, as in this study constant part of linear demand changes with each cycle, thus it gives better picture of demand then earlier models. The earlier models used to consider the constant factor of line...

Food preservation is very important for the safety and the reliability of the product. Superchilling as used for preserving foods, has been defined as a process by which the temperature of a food product is lowered to 1–2 C below the initial freezing point. Fresh and high quality food products are in great demand worldwide. Temperature is a major factor determining the shelf life and quality of...

In this paper, we study a sub-problem of integrated production and distribution for a perishable product that cannot be inventoried. The manufacturing facility has a limited production rate, and the delivery truck has a non-negligible traveling time between locations. The order in which customers may receive deliveries is fixed. Each customer requests a delivery quantity and a time window for r...

Production and consumption of edible mushrooms have grown continuously in the last fifteen years, particularly due to interest in their nutritional and health benefits. The three most cultivated mushrooms worldwide are Agaricus bisporus (common mushrooms), Lentinus edodes (shiitake) and Pleurotus spp. (oyster mushroom). Mushrooms are highly perishable. They tend to lose quality right after harv...

The recent expansion of global food retailers into emerging economies has made the study of food retail modernization especially relevant at this time. We present a framework to analyze limitations to market share growth of retail formats based on diffusion across consumer segments and by product category. We then propose a measurement approach, based on consumer surveys, that quantifies the im...

We study the problem faced by a monopolistic company that is dynamically pricing a perishable product or service and simultaneously learning the demand characteristics of its customers. In the learning procedure, the company observes the sales history over consecutive planning horizons and predicts consumer demand by applying an aggregating algorithm (AA) to a pool of online stochastic predicto...

In this study we examine the relationship between corporate green bonds and commodities (both perishable & non-perishable) that attracts very little attention in relative literature. For first time, investigate a long-term including significantly higher number of observations. Furthermore, adopt novel methodology, VaR (value at risk) based copulas, to describe asymmetric risk spillover by c...

Perishable products require special handling measures that may have social and environmental impacts along with their well-known economic aspects. Therefore, the sustainability of food supply chains has gained ground; however, perishable chains, is still not a fully explored field study. in this research, multi-objective mathematical programming model developed to optimize cost, energy consumpt...