CAPSLOG: 'Capitalizing on collaboration in sustainable logistics in food and flower chains’ Prof. dr. Jack G.A.J. van der Vorst Prof. dr. Wout Dullaert Dr. Frans Cruijssen NWO, 21 Januari 2015

Case 1: SuperUnie – 13 retailers How can SuperUnie members’ supply chains best benefit from each other? What is the ultimate potential of horizontal collaboration of the member chains, and vertical collaboration with suppliers and LSPs? How should costs, investments and benefits be fairly distributed? Can we create a consolidated transport flows database of all SuperUnie members in the Netherlands that facilitates collaboration opportunities? What are the hurdles and benefits for members to participate?

Case 2: Flower supply chain How to make new collaboration concepts work? How to identify key collaboration partners and how to get them involved? What type of collaboration model and collaborative logistics concept is most effective in improving sustainability performance of perishable products? What value can collaboration on sustainability bring?

Research questions 1.Performance assessment: What are the relevant and important key performance indicators for measuring efficiency, responsiveness, product quality and sustainability in fresh chains and how can these indicators be assessed in an integral way, to make choices between various network design structures? 2.Sustainable logistics collaboration concepts: What are relevant sustainable collaborative logistics concepts for perishable products, and what are the potential performance improvements in general, and sustainability effects specifically? 3.Performance improvement via collaboration: What are bottlenecks and drivers for effective collaboration concepts and how does an ideal collaboration consortium looks like? How can collaboration and improved sustainability be translated into value for customers?

Research objectives  Development and assessment of sustainable collaborative logistics concepts, i.e. the joint logistics distribution network, the collaborative logistics planning and control system, and the (horizontal and vertical) collaboration formats.  Instruments are needed to assess these concepts collaboration models and formats, hence, a toolbox will be developed comprising: ● diagnostic and benchmarking instruments to judge the current performance on the different performance indicators ● decision support models to determine trade offs between all four indicators of costs, quality, service and sustainability, ● performance and incentive models that provide guidelines to practitioners to assess the value of (cross chain) collaboration efforts and how to organise collaboration in and between chains effectively.

Contribution and impact Using longitudinal case study approach, dedicated modelling efforts and possibility to test modelling outputs to real life pilot results, we …  Identify successful collaborative logistics concepts  Improve people-planet-profit indicators for both cases  Unravel performance hierarchy and interaction effects in a network  Identify the value of collaboration and sustainability efforts in specific context of agri-food sector Focus on transition towards sustainable logistics concepts using real life pilots – making it work – and show it works !

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