@inproceedings{2caad53670bb49a5bee18e57800e7ae0,
title = "MILP approaches to sustainable production and distribution of meal elements",
abstract = "This paper studies the production and distribution system forprofessionally prepared meals, in which a new innovative concept is applied. Theconcept aims to improve the sustainability of the system by distributing mealelements super-chilled in the conventional cold chain. Here, sustainabilitycomprises economic, environmental and social aspects. The impacts on andtrade-offs between the different dimensions of sustainability are discussed, andcombined with aspect of product quality. Furthermore, we identify the importantplanning decisions in relation to production and distribution and organisethese in a decision hierarchy. Based on these discussions, decision supportmodels based on mixed-integer linear programming are developed for the planningtasks on the tactical level, including decision-making on packaging options anddelivery structures. The resulting models can be used to support production anddistribution planning, and also evaluate the performance of and quantify thetrade-offs between the different sustainability dimensions.",
keywords = "Catering, Decisionsupport, Distribution management, Food industry, MILP, Planning",
author = "Renzo Akkerman and Yang Wang and Martin Grunow",
year = "2009",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1109/ICCIE.2009.5223667",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781424441365",
series = "2009 International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, CIE 2009",
pages = "973--978",
booktitle = "2009 International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, CIE 2009",
note = "2009 International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, CIE 2009 ; Conference date: 06-07-2009 Through 09-07-2009",
}