Optimal operational planning in the fruit industry supply chain

Abstract

In the present contribution, an operational planning framework for a typical FISC is proposed, which explicitly considers the unique operational features of FISC systems, in particular the meaningful uncertainty in the quality and quantity of the raw material (fresh fruit from farms) and the possibility of supply chain Erdogdu/Optimization in Food Engineering 61410_C031 Page Proof page 703 10.7.2008 6:12pm Compositor Name: DeShanthi Optimal Operational Planning in the Fruit Industry Supply Chain 703 disruption episodes. The proposed methodology implements a Model Predictive Control philosophy. The chapter is structured as follows. In the following section the existing operational optimization approaches for supply chain systems are reviewed. In Section 31.3, the chosen study case, a large company that operates several nodes within the Argentinean FISC, is described and the corresponding model is presented. In Section 31.4, the proposed operational planning scheme is introduced. Results are presented and discussed in Section 31.5. The chapter closes with a conclusion and future work (Section 31.6).