Abstract

Agri-food supply chains refers to the connections that exist across the agri-food stakeholders from farm to fork related processes. In this environment, operations like planning and control are critical to enhance agri-food supply chains performance and decisions, which are considered complex mainly because the presence of a high variety of information and variables that are required to be managed simultaneously. Hence, the use of a combination of methods, methodologies and multidisciplinary approaches are one of the key trends in research to handle these complexities. The purpose of this is to benefit the agri-food sector by identifying sustainable solutions that will enhance social opportunities, as well as livelihoods, local and national economies. From this, impacts are expected in terms of providing stakeholders with validated scenarios to improve agri-food supply chain resilience, establish agri-food decision-making guidelines to enhance agriculture quality delivery and strengthen agri-food stakeholders position in local and global supply chains. However, since the interdependencies between agri-food stakeholders are related to several agri-food activities, resources and systems, the establishment of collaborative business models across the agri-food supply chain has turned more important than ever, specially to support global agri-food supply chains, food safety and traceability in response to the sustainable global challenges. Therefore, aligned with the H2020 RUC-APS research project, this research focuses in addressing key decision-making challenges in agri-food supply chain environments by connecting key operations management methodologies to collaborative research approaches in the regions of Europe, Asia and South America. The objective is to identify the operations management situations where decisions are made difficult by uncertainty in the agri-food domain, within the study and implementation of Operations Management based approaches in agri-food supply chains.

摘要

农业食品供应链是指从农场到餐桌相关流程的农业食品利益相关者之间存在的联系。在这种环境下，规划和控制等操作对于提高农业食品供应链的绩效和决策至关重要，这主要是因为存在需要同时管理的大量信息和变量。因此，结合使用方法、方法论和多学科方法是处理这些复杂性的研究的主要趋势之一。这样做的目的是通过确定可增加社会机会以及生计、地方和国家经济的可持续解决方案来使农业食品部门受益。由此，在为利益相关者提供经过验证的情景以提高农业食品供应链弹性、制定农业食品决策指南以提高农业质量交付和加强农业食品利益相关者在当地和全球供应链中的地位方面，预计会产生影响。然而，由于农业食品利益相关者之间的相互依存关系与若干农业食品活动、资源和系统相关，在农业食品供应链中建立协作商业模式变得比以往任何时候都更加重要，特别是支持全球农业食品供应链、食品安全和可追溯性，以应对可持续的全球挑战。因此，配合 H2020 RUC-APS 研究项目，这项研究的重点是通过将关键运营管理方法与欧洲、亚洲和南美洲地区的合作研究方法联系起来，解决农业食品供应链环境中的关键决策挑战。目标是在农业食品供应链中基于运营管理的方法的研究和实施中，确定因农业食品领域的不确定性而使决策变得困难的运营管理情况。