TY - GEN
T1 - An Operational Planning Model to Support First Mile Logistics for Small Fresh-Produce Growers
AU - Majluf-Manzur, Álvaro M.
AU - González-Ramirez, Rosa G.
AU - Velasco-Paredes, Raimundo A.
AU - Villalobos, J. Rene
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In this work, we propose a hierarchical optimization model to support harvest and local routing decisions of fresh agricultural products. The proposed model has been motivated by the fact that small growers of fresh produce very often face difficulties in terms of availability of local (or first-mile) logistics at reasonable prices which results in lower profit margins and more food waste. So, in order to reduce the cost of first-mile logistics they can co-ordinate the consolidation of the harvests from different growers to send their products to the packing facility. Hence, we integrate harvesting and routing operations for a set of small growers with the aim to reduce their operational costs. The proposed framework has been implemented and preliminary evaluated with some instances considering as case study farmers of fresh produce in the central region of Chile.
AB - In this work, we propose a hierarchical optimization model to support harvest and local routing decisions of fresh agricultural products. The proposed model has been motivated by the fact that small growers of fresh produce very often face difficulties in terms of availability of local (or first-mile) logistics at reasonable prices which results in lower profit margins and more food waste. So, in order to reduce the cost of first-mile logistics they can co-ordinate the consolidation of the harvests from different growers to send their products to the packing facility. Hence, we integrate harvesting and routing operations for a set of small growers with the aim to reduce their operational costs. The proposed framework has been implemented and preliminary evaluated with some instances considering as case study farmers of fresh produce in the central region of Chile.
KW - First mile logistics
KW - Harvesting and distribution planning
KW - Small fresh-produce growers
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-76310-7_17
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-76310-7_17
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85111030308
SN - 9783030763091
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 205
EP - 219
BT - Production Research - 10th International Conference of Production Research - Americas, ICPR-Americas 2020, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Rossit, Daniel Alejandro
A2 - Tohmé, Fernando
A2 - Mejía Delgadillo, Gonzalo
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 10th International Conference of Production Research - Americas, ICPR-Americas 2020
Y2 - 9 December 2020 through 11 December 2020
ER -