A reliable decision support system for fresh food supply chain management

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 1458-1485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Dellino ◽  
Teresa Laudadio ◽  
Renato Mari ◽  
Nicola Mastronardi ◽  
Carlo Meloni
Author(s):  
Ahmad Faiz Ghazali ◽  
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Nurkhairany Amyra Mokhtar ◽  
Aishah Suhaimi ◽  
Rahmawati Mohd Yusoff ◽  
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Hybrid eeducation is an approach that helps in conducting face-to-face and online ddistance learning especially for formal education. However, during COVID-19 pandemic, formal education institutions including schools and universities as well as informal education tthrough the media for communities and industries are practiced by the lawmakers to manage workplace distancing. Food supply chain are experiencing unexpected disruptions due to interrelated activities that will determine supply chain performance and efficiency. This article explores the challenges faced by food industry and related sectors due to emergence impact of COVID-19 in Malaysia. Food supply chain management (FSCM) is a complex task involving interconnected activities and numerous stakeholders for a specific food product from raw materials to final product before it reaches the end customers. An overview of COVID-19 scenarios, followed by the impact of pandemic towards the activities in food supply chain, and the management issues that need to be addressed are presented. Several challenges identified are including the worldwide implication of the pandemic scenarios to food supply chain management and food supply chain activities, and indirect impact of supply chain disruption to labour force; unemployment and retrenchment. Finally, a visual decision support system (VDSS) model is developed to illustrate the main impacts of the pandemic scenario on food supply chain as well as addressing the labour management and opportunities. It has potential to provide general guidelines to educators, policy-makers, and decision-makers to deal with uncertainties after the pandemic.


Author(s):  
R. A. Malairajan ◽  
K. Ganesh ◽  
M. Punnniyamoorthy ◽  
S. P. Anbuudayasankar

In today’s highly competitive and demanding environment, the pressure on both public and private organizations is to achieve a better way to deliver values to end customers. There has been a growing recognition that the two goals, cost reduction and customer service are achieved through Logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM). Transportation of goods continues an important part of in-bound as well as outbound logistics of Supply Chain Management (SCM). Efficient distribution of goods and services is of great importance in today’s competitive market, because transportation constitutes a considerable portion of the purchase price of most products or services. Vehicle routing is considered as an important resource in a distribution logistics management system. Effective plan and control of vehicle operation can significantly reduce the cost of physical distribution system. To overcome the challenges of changing environment, the scheme of vehicle control of a physical distribution system should be dynamic. Thus India has become the top milk producing country in the world. This study addresses the vehicle routing aspect of distribution logistics in Sangam dairy supply chain of Guntur district in Andhra Pradesh. The problem is viewed as Vehicle Routing Problem with Backhauls (VRPB) and a mathematical model is developed with the consideration of various practical constraints. Moreover, a decision support system is developed for dynamic VRPB, which would help the manager in making operational and tactical decisions.


2018 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 100-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Dellino ◽  
T. Laudadio ◽  
R. Mari ◽  
N. Mastronardi ◽  
C. Meloni

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rika Ampuh Hadiguna

Sustainable supply chain management (s-SCM) requires a practice tool to assess performance that able to measure, evaluate and improve the existing operations of supply chain. The research question is how to build a decision support system (DSS) for performance assessment of s-SCM. The author has designed a DSS for performance assessment of s-SCM. There are some elements in designed DSS namely existing achievement, standards, indicators achievement and priority, computation algorithm, and recommendation for improvement. Theoretical contribution of this study is the development of relationship between total and partial performance in mathematical formulation. The model that has been presented is still using generic indicators. If the particular company would like to apply model that additional indicators should change the encoding computer program. However, the modification is very easy to perform. DSS structure of this study is still able to accommodate any kind of particular requirement.


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