TY - JOUR
T1 - Balancing environmental and economic performance in the food processing industry
AU - Akkerman, Renzo
AU - Donk, Dirk Pieter Van
PY - 2010/3
Y1 - 2010/3
N2 - Changing customer requirements, unpredictable disturbances combined with expensive production facilities, are major problems for food processing companies to achieve synergy between the economic and environmental performance. There is notably a lack of tools to support decisions to explore effects on performance related to new product introductions, changes in production equipment, changes in planning concepts and their cross sections. We argue that interdisciplinary research that uses operations research techniques, operations management insights, food process technology and product design helps in exploring the effect of uncertainty in demand and production. As a result, process design can be more robust: both economic and environmental. This position paper explores the problem and the main elements of the proposed scenario-based simulation approach.
AB - Changing customer requirements, unpredictable disturbances combined with expensive production facilities, are major problems for food processing companies to achieve synergy between the economic and environmental performance. There is notably a lack of tools to support decisions to explore effects on performance related to new product introductions, changes in production equipment, changes in planning concepts and their cross sections. We argue that interdisciplinary research that uses operations research techniques, operations management insights, food process technology and product design helps in exploring the effect of uncertainty in demand and production. As a result, process design can be more robust: both economic and environmental. This position paper explores the problem and the main elements of the proposed scenario-based simulation approach.
KW - Decision support
KW - Economic performance
KW - Environmental performance
KW - Food industry
KW - Operations management
KW - Process design
KW - Product design
KW - Scenario analysis
KW - Simulation
KW - Sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77749316170&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1504/IJEIM.2010.031906
DO - 10.1504/IJEIM.2010.031906
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77749316170
SN - 1368-275X
VL - 11
SP - 330
EP - 340
JO - International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
JF - International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
IS - 3
ER -