Application of Information-Sharing for Resilient and Sustainable Food Delivery in Last-Mile Logistics

Valentas Gruzauskas (), Aurelija Burinskiene and Andrius Krisciunas
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Valentas Gruzauskas: Department of Business Technologies and Entrepreneurship, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio al. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
Aurelija Burinskiene: Business Management Faculty, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Saulėtekio al. 11, LT-10223 Vilnius, Lithuania
Andrius Krisciunas: Department of Applied Informatics, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, Studentu Str. 50, LT-51368 Kaunas, Lithuania

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 2, 1-21

Abstract: The growing food demand, the tendency for organic food, and the adaptation of the e-commerce business model require new food supply chain management approaches. On the one hand, 30% of the world’s produced food is wasted, and CO 2 emissions are rapidly growing due to transport. On the other hand, the increasingly complex and dynamic environment is decreasing the effectiveness of food supply chains. Because of these trends, sustainability and resilience are becoming more relevant to food supply chains. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to propose a strategy based on information exchange to improve food quality and decrease the level of CO 2 emission in last-mile deliveries of food products. To achieve this goal, an agent-based model of last-mile deliveries was developed. The model simulated traffic flow and traffic accidents as disturbances in the system while measuring the level of CO 2 emission and food quality of the network. The simulation compares information sharing between all vehicles in the urban area and without information sharing in four scenarios of the food industry. In practice, information sharing is achieved by using connected vehicle technology. The use of information sharing between vehicles in last-mile delivery processes allows the development of a self-organizing system, which would adapt to disturbances and lead to the development of sustainability in the long run.

Keywords: food supply chain; sustainability; resilience; urban logistics; information sharing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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