Logistics Working Group

Chair: Prof. Remigio Berruto

Dept. of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (DISAFA) - University of Turin, Largo Paolo Braccini, 2 10095 -... read-more

IT Italy

TEL: +39-011-670-8596

E-mail: remigio.berruto@unito.it
Vice Chair: Dr. Patrizia Busato

Dept. of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Italy read-more

IT Italy

TEL: +39 011 670.8623

E-mail: patrizia.busato@unito.it
Secretary: Dr. Elisabeth Quendler

University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (Universität für Bodenkultur), Peter Jordan Straße 82, 1190,... read-more

AT Austria

TEL: +43 1 47654 3506

E-mail: elisabeth.quendler@boku.ac.at

Mission

    In-farm, extra farm and regional logistics
  • Service operation logistics
  • Biomass & forage supply-chain
  • Grain supply-chain
  • Slurry management
  • Storage and operation design

    • Delivery of high-value produce through the supply-chain

  • Local produce
  • Information sharing

    • Information streaming along the supply-chain

  • Traceability performance for the supply chain

Objectives

  • To meet recent demands on machinery management in complex agricultural operations related to harvest, distribution and transport of produce (grain, biomass, slurry)
  • To share the state-of-the art technology for the optimal management of on-farm, extra-farm and regional logistic operations
  • To develop methods and tools to improve the efficiency of the logistic operations
  • To set-up standard parameter for comparison of logistic operations
  • To optimize, with a system approach, the performance of the working chains, under many viewpoints, considering technical, economic and environmental aspects.

Scope

  • To organize within CIGR specific workshops on the topic
  • To interact with other CIGR Working Groups and Sections
  • To provide reports on state-of-the-art of the topics
  • To develop a network among the people working on logistic topics within CIGR
  • Cooperate with E-Journal with papers on the topic and with a pool of expert reviewers for the subject
  • To promote the activity among industry researchers and agriculture extension services specialists
  • To develop contacts with similar international organization

Activities

The WG will discuss and promote the following methods and techniques (and will not be limited to):

  • Set-up of field trials with standard conditions
  • Intermodal operation (e.g. wagon-truck, truck-barge, etc)
  • Innovative handling systems and technologies
  • Storage management and agricultural facility planning
  • Euristic and scheduling tools
  • Discrete event simulation modeling
  • Linear, mixed, integer programming
  • Analytical models, statistical tools
  • Vehicle route planning and logistic networks
  • Management resource planning and JIT methodologies
  • Lean Thinking applied to streaming of information and goods