Optimal Quality Degradation Modeling in Food Supply Chain

This paper deals with the integration of the cost of food quality COFQ in decision-making on storage and transportation conditions through a food supply chain. We propose a quantitative model which formulates the Cost of Food Quality COFQ across the food supply chain according to the classical model PAF. Results obtained using CPLEX are illustrated with numerical examples to highlight the impact of quality parameters such as cooling cost and transportation cost factor on total cost of the Food Supply Chain (FSC), and thus to show how consideration of quality costs may lead to increased efficiency and cost saving of the food supply chain.

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