Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies provides integrated and practicable solutions that aid planners and entrepreneurs in the design and optimization of food production-distribution systems and operations and drives change toward sustainable food ecosystems.
With synthesized coverage of the academic literature, this book integrates the quantitative models and tools that address each step of food supply chain operations to provide readers with easy access to support-decision quantitative and practicable methods.
Broken into three parts, the book begins with an introduction and problem statement. The second part presents quantitative models and tools as an integrated framework for the food supply chain system and operations design. The book concludes with the presentation of case studies and applications focused on specific food chains.
Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies will be an indispensable resource for food scientists, practitioners and graduate students studying food systems and other related disciplines.
1. Cover image - p. cover 2. Title page - p. cover 3. Table of Contents - p. cover 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Contributors - p. xi 6. Foreword - p. xiii 7. Preface - p. xv 8. Sustainable food supply chain: Planning, design, and control through interdisciplinary methodologies - p. xix 9. Chapter 1: Modeling inclusive food supply chains toward sustainable ecosystem planning - p. xxii 10. Chapter 2: Emerging issues and challenges in agri-food supply chain - p. 21 11. Chapter 3: The role of modeling and systems thinking in contemporary agriculture - p. 37 12. Chapter 4: Food shelf-life models - p. 47 13. Chapter 5: A support-design procedure for sustainable food product-packaging systems - p. 60 14. Chapter 6: Designing advanced food packaging systems and technologies through modeling and virtualization - p. 81 15. Chapter 7: Sustainable food processing: A production planning and scheduling perspective - p. 104 16. Chapter 8: Design-support methodologies for job-shop production system in the food industry - p. 114 17. Chapter 9: The storage of perishable products: A decision-support tool to manage temperature-sensitive products warehouses - p. 129 18. Chapter 10: Mathematical modeling of food and agriculture distribution - p. 143 19. Chapter 11: Using vehicle routing models to improve sustainability of temperature-controlled food chains - p. 158 20. Chapter 12: Cool chain and temperature-controlled transport: An overview of concepts, challenges, and technologies - p. 166 21. Chapter 13: Food transportation and refrigeration technologies—Design and optimization - p. 183 22. Chapter 14: Quality assessment of temperature-sensitive high-value food products: An application to Italian fine chocolate distribution - p. 199 23. Chapter 15: Models and technologies for the enhancement of transparency and visibility in food supply chains - p. 217 24. Chapter 16: Forecasting for food demand - p. 236 25. Chapter 17: Food systems sustainability: The complex challenge of food loss and waste - p. 248 26. Chapter 18: Handling food waste and losses: Criticalities and methodologies - p. 260 27. Chapter 19: Sustainable urban food planning: Optimizing land-use allocation and transportation in urban-rural ecosystems - p. 276 28. Chapter 20: Sustainable operations in reusable food packaging networks - p. 291 29. Chapter 21: A model to enhance the penetration of the renewables to power multistage food supply chains - p. 304 30. Chapter 22: Decision support models for fresh fruits and vegetables supply chain management - p. 315 31. Chapter 23: Modeling by-products and waste management in the meat industry - p. 337 32. Chapter 24: Recipe-driven methods for the design and management of food catering production systems - p. 349 33. Index - p. 367
Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies provides integrated and practicable solutions that aid planners and entrepreneurs in the design and optimization of food production-distribution systems and operations and drives change toward sustainable food ecosystems.
With synthesized coverage of the academic literature, this book integrates the quantitative models and tools that address each step of food supply chain operations to provide readers with easy access to support-decision quantitative and practicable methods.
Broken into three parts, the book begins with an introduction and problem statement. The second part presents quantitative models and tools as an integrated framework for the food supply chain system and operations design. The book concludes with the presentation of case studies and applications focused on specific food chains.
Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies will be an indispensable resource for food scientists, practitioners and graduate students studying food systems and other related disciplines.
1. Cover image - p. cover 2. Title page - p. cover 3. Table of Contents - p. cover 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Contributors - p. xi 6. Foreword - p. xiii 7. Preface - p. xv 8. Sustainable food supply chain: Planning, design, and control through interdisciplinary methodologies - p. xix 9. Chapter 1: Modeling inclusive food supply chains toward sustainable ecosystem planning - p. xxii 10. Chapter 2: Emerging issues and challenges in agri-food supply chain - p. 21 11. Chapter 3: The role of modeling and systems thinking in contemporary agriculture - p. 37 12. Chapter 4: Food shelf-life models - p. 47 13. Chapter 5: A support-design procedure for sustainable food product-packaging systems - p. 60 14. Chapter 6: Designing advanced food packaging systems and technologies through modeling and virtualization - p. 81 15. Chapter 7: Sustainable food processing: A production planning and scheduling perspective - p. 104 16. Chapter 8: Design-support methodologies for job-shop production system in the food industry - p. 114 17. Chapter 9: The storage of perishable products: A decision-support tool to manage temperature-sensitive products warehouses - p. 129 18. Chapter 10: Mathematical modeling of food and agriculture distribution - p. 143 19. Chapter 11: Using vehicle routing models to improve sustainability of temperature-controlled food chains - p. 158 20. Chapter 12: Cool chain and temperature-controlled transport: An overview of concepts, challenges, and technologies - p. 166 21. Chapter 13: Food transportation and refrigeration technologies—Design and optimization - p. 183 22. Chapter 14: Quality assessment of temperature-sensitive high-value food products: An application to Italian fine chocolate distribution - p. 199 23. Chapter 15: Models and technologies for the enhancement of transparency and visibility in food supply chains - p. 217 24. Chapter 16: Forecasting for food demand - p. 236 25. Chapter 17: Food systems sustainability: The complex challenge of food loss and waste - p. 248 26. Chapter 18: Handling food waste and losses: Criticalities and methodologies - p. 260 27. Chapter 19: Sustainable urban food planning: Optimizing land-use allocation and transportation in urban-rural ecosystems - p. 276 28. Chapter 20: Sustainable operations in reusable food packaging networks - p. 291 29. Chapter 21: A model to enhance the penetration of the renewables to power multistage food supply chains - p. 304 30. Chapter 22: Decision support models for fresh fruits and vegetables supply chain management - p. 315 31. Chapter 23: Modeling by-products and waste management in the meat industry - p. 337 32. Chapter 24: Recipe-driven methods for the design and management of food catering production systems - p. 349 33. Index - p. 367
