Sustainable Food Supply Chains

Riccardo Accorsi is assistant professor at the University of Bologna’s Department of Industrial Engineering where he teaches Industrial Logistics class. His research interests lie in operations management and in the development of decision-support models and tools for the design, planning and optimization of sustainable production and distribution systems with particular focus on food supply chains. Leading member of the Food & Wine Supply Chain Council (FWSCC), he has written numerous publications on the management of food supply chain operations. He has been involved in many funded research projects and consulting for industry. Riccardo Manzini is a full professor of Logistics and Facility Planning at the department of Industrial Engineering, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, where he also acts as the director of the Food Supply Chain Center and the Warehousing Center. His research activity deals with the design, management, control and optimization of production system and supply chain, including laboratory research on monitoring and simulating the environmental effects of logistics and packaging decisions and solutions on perishable products. He is the founder, organizing and chair of the International Workshop on Food Supply Chain, “The Food Journey”, and has been the guest editor for the International Journal of Production Economics in a special issue on Sustainable Food Supply Chain.

• 1. Modelling Inclusive Food Supply Chains toward Sustainable Ecosystem Planning2. Emerging Issues and Challenges in Agri-Food Supply Chain3. The role of modelling and systems thinking in contemporary agriculture4. Food Shelf-life Models5. A Support-Design Procedure for Sustainable Food Product-Packaging Systems6. Design Advanced Food Packaging Systems and Technologies through Modelling and Virtualization7. Sustainable food processing: A production planning and scheduling perspective8. Design-support Methodologies for Job-Shop Production System in the Food Industry9. The Storage of Perishable Products: A Decision-support Tool to Manage Temperature-sensitive Products Warehouses10. Mathematical Modelling of Food and Agriculture Distribution11. Using Vehicle Routing Models to improve Sustainability of Temperature-controlled Food Chains12. Cool chain and temperature-controlled transport: An overview of concepts, challenges and technologies13. Food Transportation and Refrigeration Technologies – Design and optimization14. Quality assessment of Temperature-sensitive High-value Food Products. An application to Italian fine chocolate distribution15. Models and Technologies for the Enhancement of Transparency and Visibility in Food Supply Chains16. Forecasting for food demand17. Food Systems Sustainability: The complex challenge of food loss and waste18. Handling Food Waste and Losses. Criticalities and Methodologies19. Sustainable Urban Food Planning: Optimizing Land-use Allocation and Transportation in Urban-Rural Ecosystems20. Sustainable Operations in Reusable Food Packaging Networks21. A Model to Enhance the Penetration of the Renewables to Power Multi-Stage Food Supply Chains22. Decision Support Models for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Supply Chain Management23. Modelling By-products and Waste Management in the Meat Industry24. Recipe-driven Methods for the Design and Management of Food Catering Production Systems