A decision support system to facilitate collaborative supply of food cooperatives

Figures & data

Figure 1. Overview of the considered distribution strategies in this work.

Figure 2. Collaborative shipping of produces from farmers to food cooperatives.

Figure 3. A DSS to facilitate collaborative supply of food cooperatives.

Figure 4. Order selection procedure for food cooperatives within the DSS.

Figure 5. ALNS iteration considering a collaborative delivery setting.

Figure 6. Pseudocode of the implemented routeing procedure.

Figure 7. Overview of the geographic problem setting.

Table 1. Notation of the investigated logistics concepts with the results.

Abbreviation	Description
Coop	Each food cooperative picks up its own orders
Coop-HC	Food cooperatives collaborate to jointly collect orders
Farm	Each farmer delivers its own products to food cooperatives
Farm-HC	Farmers collaborate to jointly deliver orders
3PL	All deliveries are outsourced to a third-party logistics provider

Figure 8. Impact of the number of orders on the investigated logistics concepts.

Figure 9. Impact of the maximum order size on the investigated strategies.

Figure 10. Impact of ordering locally on the investigated logistics concepts.

Figure 11. Impact of the dynamic orders on the investigated delivery concepts.

Figure 12. Impact of number of collaborating cooperatives (top) and farmers (bottom).