Case—Optimizing Food Donation Delivery for Nonprofit Company Logica&Co

Anna Livia Croella () and Martina Gregori ()
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Anna Livia Croella: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy
Martina Gregori: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy

INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2025, vol. 26, issue 1, 73-78

Abstract: The case addresses a real-world challenge encountered by the nonprofit organization Logica&Co. It revolves around optimizing the logistics involved in collecting food donations from local businesses and delivering them to soup kitchens, utilizing a fleet of bike riders. The focus is identifying efficient strategies to minimize transportation and warehouse costs while maximizing the impact of the donations and private sponsor monetary contributions. The study includes tasks such as determining optimal bike and e-bike warehouse locations and managing the allocation of resources among riders and soup kitchen volunteers.

Keywords: group projects; collaborative learning; teaching modeling; integer programming; teaching nonlinear functions; logistics management; food lost and waste (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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