Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:48:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2003-06-30T00:00:00Z / Among all economics activities, agribusiness is increasing its importance with great force in the world, stimulated mainly for the growth of the population and in the demand for food. Agribusiness studies have been the focus of academic research for quite a long time. However, those studies usually have used a theoretical background, connotations, frames of reference and methodologies slightly different of those used in the research on Supply Chain Management (SCM). Most agro-industrial studies are influenced by economics theories. They usually address questions of public policy, structures of govemance and competitiveness of the industry. On the other hand, researches on SCM have a managerial concern addressing questions of operational efficiency, effectiveness, customers' needs and so on. Notwithstanding, differences on the research focus and theoretical frameworks, the systemic vision of the process - since the production of raw materials until the delivery of the product to the end consumer - is common to SCM and agro-industrial studies. The main purpose of this research is to advance in the studies of agro-industrial chains, using a management approach frequently presented in the literature of supply chain management. The unit of analysis of the research is a supply chain of poultry meat by-product in Brazil. The main approach will be the questions of management and measurement of supply chain performance. / Dentro dos diversos setores e atividades econômicas, o agronegócio vem se desenvolvendo com grande força no mundo, impulsionado, sobretudo, pelo aumento da população e a crescente demanda por alimentos. A idéia e o estudo de cadeias já há algum tempo é difundido na literatura sobre Sistemas Agroindustriais, mas com origens, conotações, referenciais teóricos e metodologias específicas ao setor e diferentes das que vêm marcando e definindo as pesquisas sobre o gerenciamento da cadeia de suprimentos (GCS). Enquanto os estudos sobre cadeias produtivas ou sistemas agroindustriais são marcados pela influência da economia e por preocupações com políticas públicas, estruturas de governança e competitividade da indústria e do setor, as pesquisas sobre GCS, como o próprio nome indica, possuem um cunho mais gerencial, seja este direcionado por uma preocupação maior com questões de eficiência e eficácia operacionais ou de atendimento às necessidades dos clientes. Entretanto, embora diferentes quanto à origem, há um fundamento comum ao GCS e aos estudos de sistemas e cadeias agro-industriais, qual seja, a base sistêmica ou, a visão sistêmica de todo o processo produtivo, desde a produção de insumos até a entrega do produto final ao consumidor. O propósito deste projeto é o de avançar nos estudos sobre cadeias, utilizando os conceitos e abordagens gerenciais desenvolvidos na literatura sobre GCS, mas tendo como unidade de análise uma cadeia de suprimentos de carne e produtos industrializados de frango no Brasil. O enfoque principal serão as questões sobre avaliação e medição do desempenho de cadeias.

Au cours de la première moitié du XIXe siècle, les consommateurs, pour choisir leurs eaux-de-vie, s'appuyaient sur les réputations individuelles des distributeurs. Les produits étaient principalement commercialisés sous les marques des détaillants ou sous des marques collectives. Dans ce contexte, l'horizon commercial des négociants charentais ne dépassait pas le lien direct avec lequel ils étaient en contact dans la chaîne de distribution. Leurs réputations n’étaient pas connues, sauf exceptions, par les consommateurs. Le contexte institutionnel n'offrait pas la possibilité aux négociants charentais de pouvoir poursuivre en justice les grossistes et les détaillants qui fraudaient sur la marque. Il laissait toute liberté d'action aux intermédiaires de distribution, en grande partie parce que la réputation, la marque, n'était pas reconnue comme un actif faisant partie de la catégorie des droits de propriété. Cela ne signifiait pas que les réputations des producteurs n'arrivaient pas jusqu’aux consommateurs finaux. La mise en avant du nom des producteurs ne dépendait jamais de ces derniers, mais du bon vouloir des intermédiaires de distribution.Progressivement, au cours de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, une nouvelle forme de coordination apparait, beaucoup moins individualisée, fondée sur une forme impersonnelle : les marques. Les consommateurs ne placent plus seulement l'objet de leur confiance dans la réputation individuelle d'un détaillant mais font désormais confiance en une entité qu'ils ne connaissent pas personnellement. Les producteurs sont en mesure de prendre en main une partie du travail de commercialisation et de distribution. L'espace institutionnel, qui offrait autrefois une liberté d'action quasi totale aux distributeurs, limite de plus en plus le travail de ces intermédiaires. qui sont tenus comme les principaux responsables des conflits portant sur la qualité des produits et des cas de concurrence déloyale.La reconnaissance des droits de propriété intellectuelle dans l'arène marchande n'est pas hasardeuse. Elles est la conséquence d'un nouveau contexte commercial désigné traditionnellement comme la « première mondialisation ». Ce nouveau contexte requiert de nouvelles règles du jeu, de nouvelles institutions, de nouvelles formes de régulation. La question de la qualité des produits et celle des marques firent toutes deux l'objet d'attentions accrues et de régulations massives au cours du dernier tiers du XIXe siècle. Elles offrirent la possibilité aux producteurs de pouvoir adopter des stratégies de marque. / During the first half of the nineteenth century, consumers, in order to choose their brandies, relied on the individual reputations of retailers. Products were mainly marketed under the brands of retailers or under collective brands. In this context, the commercial horizon of the Cognac brandy producers did not go beyond the direct link with which they were in contact in the supply chain. Their reputations were not known, with some exceptions, by consumers. The institutional context did not provide the opportunity for Cognac brandy producers to sue wholesalers and retailers who defrauded the brand. Distribution intermediaries were free to act, largely because reputation and brand, were not recognized as an asset within the category of property rights. This did not mean that the reputations of the producers did not reach consumers. The promotion of producers’ names never depended on their own commercial strategies, but on the willingness of distribution intermediaries.Progressively, during the second half of the nineteenth century, a new form of coordination appeared, much less individualized, based on an impersonal form: producers’ brands. Consumers no longer trusted retailers’ reputations, but trusted an entity they did not know personally. Producers were able to take over marketing and distribution work that were formerly of distributors’ responsabilities. The institutional space, which once provided distributors with almost total freedom of action, increasingly limited the freedom of intermediaries who were considered as the main responsible for conflicts on product quality and unfair competition.The recognition of intellectual property rights in the mercantile arena is not hazardous. It is the consequence of a new business environment traditionally described as the « first globalization ». This new context required new rules of the game, new institutions, new forms of regulation. Quality of products and brands were subject of increased attention and massive regulation during the last third of the nineteenth century. They provided the opportunity for producers to adopt brand strategies.

This dissertation seeks to study the dynamics of the Rio Grande do Sul sheep production from the configuration of slaughterhose industry supply chains front cnsumer market requirements. Employed the strategy of mixed methods analysis, combining qualitative and quantitative approaches in conducting a multicase study. Therefore, three case studies were conducted from interviews in focal firms (slaughterhouse) in the municipalities of Santana do Livramento/RS, Pântano Grande/RS and Sapiranga/RS, interviews and questionnaires applied by the suppliers and customers of the focal firms and analysis of data from official records of the sheep industry in the State. The nature of the organizational forms of the slaughterhouse segment is checked based on the assumptions of supply chain management, through its strategic, structural and relational dimensions and the behavior of the various supply chains front requirements of the consumers is perceived through the analysis of the Importance-Performance Matrix, methodology proposed by Slack et al. (2009) and evaluated in the context of the present study. The differences and similarities in the slaughterhouse supply chains are exposed in the results, pointing to the diversity of organizational forms present in sheep meat production of Rio Grande do Sul and indicating a limitation of delimiters elements of a guiding the configuration of the supply chains of the slaughterhouse segment. It turns out that the use of the Importance-Performance Matrix in conjunction with the mesoanalitic approach of supply chains shown suitable as analysis methodology for the sector studied, providing an accurate vision of the relationship between the ways companies organize their supply chains and the specifics of demand. / A presente dissertação busca estudar a dinâmica da ovinocultura de corte do Rio Grande do Sul a partir da configuração das cadeias de suprimentos de empresas do segmento frigorífico frente aos requisitos do mercado consumidor. Emprega-se a estratégia de métodos mistos de análise, combinando as abordagens qualitativa e quantitativa na realização de um estudo multicaso. Para tanto, três estudos de caso foram realizados a partir de entrevistas em empresas focais (frigoríficos) nos municípios de Santana do Livramento/RS, Pântano Grande/RS e Sapiranga/RS, entrevistas e questionários aplicados junto à fornecedores e clientes das empresas focais, e, análise de dados oriundos de registros oficiais do setor ovino do estado. A natureza das formas organizacionais do segmento frigorífico é verificada com base nos pressupostos da gestão da cadeia de suprimentos, através de suas dimensões estratégica, estrutural e relacional, e, o comportamento das diferentes cadeias de suprimentos frente aos requisitos dos consumidores é percebido através da análise da Matriz Importância-Desempenho, metodologia proposta por Slack et al. (2009) e avaliada no contexto do presente estudo. As diferenças e semelhanças presentes nas cadeias de suprimentos dos frigoríficos são expostas nos resultados, apontando para a heterogeneidade de formas organizacionais presente na ovinocultura de corte do Rio Grande do Sul e indicando uma limitação de elementos conformadores de um padrão norteador na configuração das cadeias de suprimentos do segmento frigorífico. Verifica-se que a utilização da Matriz Importância-Desempenho em conjunto com a abordagem mesoanalítica de cadeias de suprimentos se mostra adequada como metodologia de análise para o setor estudado, proporcionando uma visão apurada da relação entre as formas como as empresas organizam suas cadeias de suprimentos e as especificidades da demanda.

Esta dissertação aborda o tema ‘cadeias agroalimentares curtas’. As dificuldades econômicas vividas pelos agricultores familiares nas últimas décadas os têm feito reagir por meio de iniciativas que comportam produção, processamento e comercialização de alimentos diferenciados a partir de agroindústrias artesanais familiares. O estudo analisa o processo de construção social das iniciativas de produção, industrialização e comercialização de produtos alimentares da agricultura familiar no município de Nova Veneza, sul de Santa Catarina, buscando identificar fatores históricos e conjunturais que contribuíram para seu desenvolvimento. A partir das cadeias do queijo, da farinha de milho e do vinho foi analisado o papel das organizações e, em especial, de que forma instituições como a Epagri e a Prefeitura Municipal têm interagido com esse processo no município. Também foi analisada a relação das cadeias alimentares curtas com os mercados e como formas de organização coletiva têm reconectado consumidores e produtores. Finalizou-se o trabalho analisando a motivação dos consumidores ao optarem por produtos da agricultura familiar e as implicações dos mercados de produtos com qualidade diferenciada para o desenvolvimento local. Para compreender o objeto de estudo, buscou-se uma combinação entre as noções teóricas da construção social de mercados e a perspectiva orientada aos atores. Os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados no estudo de caso foram levantamento de dados por meio de pesquisa semiestruturada, observação e análise de dados secundários. As conclusões do trabalho apontam que cadeias agroalimentares curtas se caracterizam por novas formas de desenvolvimento rural, porém, apesar de seu viço, apresentam fragilidades e dependem da ação dos atores, especialmente do poder público, comprometendo-se com a regulação de mercados e processos de mediação qualificados. A expansão e a consolidação das cadeias agroalimentares curtas depende da construção da governança. / This thesis addresses the issue of short food supply chains to rural development. The economic difficulties experienced by farmers in recent decades have reacted through initiatives that include production, processing and marketing of different foods from small family agribusinesses. The study analyzes the social construction of production initiatives, industrialization and marketing of food from family farms in the municipality of Nova Veneza, south of Santa Catarina, Brazil, seeking to identify historical and situational factors that contributed to its development. From the chains of cheese, corn flour and wine, I analyzed the role of organizations and in particular, how institutions like Epagri and municipal government have interacted with this process in the municipality. I also analyzed the relationship between short food supply chains with markets and how various forms of collective organization have reconnected producers and consumers. The study concludes by analyzing the motivation of consumers to choose products from family farms and the implications of product markets with differentiated quality for local development. To understand the object of study proposed a combination of the theoretical notions of social construction of markets and the actor-oriented approach. The methodological procedures used in the case study were secondary data analysis, data collection through semi-structured research and observation. The conclusions of the study indicate that short food supply chains are characterized by new forms of rural development. However, in despite of its vigor, it presents weaknesses and depends on the action of the actors, especially the government itself to the regulation of markets and skilled mediation processes. The expansion and consolidation of short food supply chains depends on the understanding and construction of the notion governance.

Esta dissertação aborda o tema ‘cadeias agroalimentares curtas’. As dificuldades econômicas vividas pelos agricultores familiares nas últimas décadas os têm feito reagir por meio de iniciativas que comportam produção, processamento e comercialização de alimentos diferenciados a partir de agroindústrias artesanais familiares. O estudo analisa o processo de construção social das iniciativas de produção, industrialização e comercialização de produtos alimentares da agricultura familiar no município de Nova Veneza, sul de Santa Catarina, buscando identificar fatores históricos e conjunturais que contribuíram para seu desenvolvimento. A partir das cadeias do queijo, da farinha de milho e do vinho foi analisado o papel das organizações e, em especial, de que forma instituições como a Epagri e a Prefeitura Municipal têm interagido com esse processo no município. Também foi analisada a relação das cadeias alimentares curtas com os mercados e como formas de organização coletiva têm reconectado consumidores e produtores. Finalizou-se o trabalho analisando a motivação dos consumidores ao optarem por produtos da agricultura familiar e as implicações dos mercados de produtos com qualidade diferenciada para o desenvolvimento local. Para compreender o objeto de estudo, buscou-se uma combinação entre as noções teóricas da construção social de mercados e a perspectiva orientada aos atores. Os procedimentos metodológicos utilizados no estudo de caso foram levantamento de dados por meio de pesquisa semiestruturada, observação e análise de dados secundários. As conclusões do trabalho apontam que cadeias agroalimentares curtas se caracterizam por novas formas de desenvolvimento rural, porém, apesar de seu viço, apresentam fragilidades e dependem da ação dos atores, especialmente do poder público, comprometendo-se com a regulação de mercados e processos de mediação qualificados. A expansão e a consolidação das cadeias agroalimentares curtas depende da construção da governança. / This thesis addresses the issue of short food supply chains to rural development. The economic difficulties experienced by farmers in recent decades have reacted through initiatives that include production, processing and marketing of different foods from small family agribusinesses. The study analyzes the social construction of production initiatives, industrialization and marketing of food from family farms in the municipality of Nova Veneza, south of Santa Catarina, Brazil, seeking to identify historical and situational factors that contributed to its development. From the chains of cheese, corn flour and wine, I analyzed the role of organizations and in particular, how institutions like Epagri and municipal government have interacted with this process in the municipality. I also analyzed the relationship between short food supply chains with markets and how various forms of collective organization have reconnected producers and consumers. The study concludes by analyzing the motivation of consumers to choose products from family farms and the implications of product markets with differentiated quality for local development. To understand the object of study proposed a combination of the theoretical notions of social construction of markets and the actor-oriented approach. The methodological procedures used in the case study were secondary data analysis, data collection through semi-structured research and observation. The conclusions of the study indicate that short food supply chains are characterized by new forms of rural development. However, in despite of its vigor, it presents weaknesses and depends on the action of the actors, especially the government itself to the regulation of markets and skilled mediation processes. The expansion and consolidation of short food supply chains depends on the understanding and construction of the notion governance.

Orientador: Claudia Bauzer Medeiros / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Institutot de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T20:06:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Figueiredo_MauricioAugusto_M.pdf: 2644202 bytes, checksum: 205a8cebc670e4f9630f5119e4df54f8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Cadeias produtivas têm se torna,do cada vez mais dependentes de sistemas computacionais. Além dos desafios científicos, há várias conseqüências econômicas. Esta dissertação trata de mecanismos de gerenciamento de regras que especificam a qualidade de produtos em cadeias produtivas sob dois aspectos: (i) a especificação e armazenamento destas regras e (ii) a análise dos eventos ocorridos na cadeia face a tais restrições. A dissertação parte de um modelo de rastreabilidade para cadeias produtivas agrícolas desenvolvido na UNICAMP. As regras de qualidade gerenciadas definem condições atribuídas a produtos de forma que eles possam ser consumidos. A verificação de regras é baseada na análise de variáveis consideradas críticas para a garantia de qualidade, que são monitoradas por sensores. Portanto, esta pesquisa combina trabalhos em gerenciamento de dados de sensores, bancos de dados ativos e restrições de integridade. As principais contribuições são: um estudo detalhado sobre rastreabilidade associada a regras de qualidade, um modelo para gerenciar a especificação, aplicação e análise dessas regras, a especificação e implementação de algoritmos que transformam as regras em código executável e um protótipo para validar a arquitetura. O protótipo é baseado em serviços Web / Abstract: Supply chains have become increasingly dependent on information systems. Besides posing scientific challenges, there are many correlated economical issues. This thesis deals with mechanisms to manage rules that specify the quality of products in supply chains, under two aspects: (i) the specification and storage of those rules and (ii) the analysis of the events in this environment, under quality restrictions. This research adopts a traceability mo deI for agricultural supply chains developed at UNICAMP. The quality rules considered define conditions that products must meet so that they can be consumed. Rule checking is based on analysis of variables considered critical for quality assessment, which are monitored by sensors. Hence, this research combines work in sensor data management, active databases and integrity constrains. The main contributions are: a detailed study on traceability associated to quality rules; a mo deI to manage the specification, application and analysis of those rules; the specification and implementation of algorithms that transform the rules into executable . database triggers; and a prototype to validate the architecture, based on Web Services and event dissemination. Case studies are based on agricultural challenges / Mestrado / Mestre em Ciência da Computação

Orientador: Antonio Batocchio / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Mecânica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T18:31:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cardoso_DanielPassetti_M.pdf: 3201105 bytes, checksum: 55883ef458de95ef31cc4e5d460dedb0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: A gestão de empresas baseada em cadeia de suprimentos é uma prática que tem se difundido nas últimas décadas, cujo foco compreende os fluxos de material, de informação e financeiro desde os fornecedores de matéria-prima até os clientes finais. A presença desses elementos, seus diversos objetivos e aspectos caracterizam um cenário que pode ser avaliado por múltiplos critérios, em que a integração efetiva dos membros da cadeia pode levar a um melhor desempenho global. Com isso, o presente trabalho estuda a tomada de decisão sob essa perspectiva, sendo realizada uma aplicação composta por duas situações para o apoio à tomada de decisão no contexto da indústria automobilística. Para uma situação, adotou-se um método multicritério, baseado no método UTAGMS, que utiliza um modelo de agregação aditiva "enriquecido" com restrições de informações preferenciais e faz uso de um procedimento de programação linear, para um problema de seleção de um país para localização de uma instalação industrial, enquanto na outra situação foi feito uso de um modelo de integração comprador vendedor para o dimensionamento de um lote de aquisição que engloba os custos de fornecedor e comprador. Na aplicação do dimensionamento de lote, obteve-se uma redução dos custos de aquisição em comparação com a análise que não considera outros membros da cadeia de suprimentos. Isso é um exemplo de que empresas que decidem buscando melhores resultados para sua cadeia de suprimentos como um todo e de forma integrada podem obter melhores resultados individuais. Já para o problema de seleção de localização, foi feita uma recomendação final baseando-se em uma modelagem multicritério, que permitiu uma caracterização ampla e aprofundada, coerente com as preferências do decisor. Essa modelagem utilizou indicadores de competitividade de negócios obtidos através de publicações de organizações internacionais / Abstract: The companies management based on a supply chain is a practice which has proliferated in the last decades, whose focus involves the material, information and financial flows from the raw materials suppliers to the final customers. The presence of these elements, their various goals and aspects characterizes a scenario that may be evaluated by multiple criteria, where the effective integration of the chain members can lead to a better global performance. Therewith this work studies the decision making from that perspective, where it's realized an application composed of two situations for decision making aid in the automotive industry context. For one situation it is adopted a multicriteria method, based on UTAGMS method, which uses an additive aggregation model "enriched" with preference information constraints and which uses linear programming procedure, for a country selection for an industrial facility location problem, whereas in another situation it was used a joint economic lot sizing model which comprehends the suppliers and buyers costs. In the lot sizing application it was got cost reduction in comparison with the approach that doesn't consider other supply chain members. This is an example that companies which decide to target better results for the whole supply chain and in an integrated way can have better individual results. For the lot sizing problem, it was performed a final recommendation based in a multicriteria modeling, that enabled a wider and depth characterization, coherent with the decision actor preferences. This modeling used business competitiveness indicators obtained through publications of international organizations / Mestrado / Materiais e Processos de Fabricação / Mestre em Engenharia Mecânica

The aim of this paper is to show what relation is between the distance and the transport price and which factors can contribute to the expected irregularity. Based on the real freight transport prices the paper is looking for and finding significant differences in the relative transport prices between chosen regions. It seems that the quality of the transport price is influenced by factors like the location of the target region within Europe and towards Czechia, within transportation routes and networks, its economic power and structure and possibly also by the mutual relations that the source and target regions have within the global supply chains. The quality of the transport connection between the regions is further compared with the connection that these regions have within the global city network. As was found out, these two kinds of connection do not have to necessarily be the same. A short questionnaire was taken among chosen transport experts to get the basis for a better interpretation of the paper's conclusions and also to get their opinion on the sense of the geographical research in the field of international transport and logistics. Keywords: international freight road transport, transport pricing, transport price, logistics, supply chains, geographical aspects of pricing

The project studies environmental and social sustainability of alternative food networks (AFNs) in Jönköping County, Sweden by investigating the development of alternative food networks as part of a pre-study for Region Jönköping’s Län project Återtag av livsmedel från Naturbruksskolorna i länet till sjukhusrestaurangerna. The purpose of the study was to identify challenges and opportunities of implementing AFNs and to determine suggestions for overcoming these challenges. The purpose was achieved by investigating Region Jönköping Län's project to implement meat and vegetables produced by Jönköping County's agricultural high schools into the kitchens of the regional hospitals to become meals for patients and visitors.

The amount of food packaging waste is one of the issues associated with increasing global population and corresponding increase in consumption rate of packaged foods. Traditional plastic food packaging derived from fossil fuels imposes a significant environmental threat. There are sustainable bio-based alternatives developed to substitute traditional plastic packaging that are implemented in circular economy business models. These solutions often utilise collaboration to be implemented, however, there is a lack of research on the collaborative processes that enable circular economy in bio-based food packaging. In this thesis we examine what collaborative processes are being used in the bio-based packaging supply chain and how these processes help with facilitating the implementation of circular economy in the packaging production. Moreover, this thesis also investigates what are the barriers that the packaging producers face as they collaborate toward a circular economy. Therefore, we use qualitative interviews with representatives of bio-based food packaging companies and study the theories of supply chain collaboration and circular economy such as resource based view, transaction cost economics and various iterations of circular supply chain management models. We find that bio-based food packaging producers collaborate externally with customers, suppliers and internally among organisational teams to enable the circular economy of bio-based alternatives to conventional plastics. We also find that collaboration for circular economy in bio-based food packaging solutions is challenged by cultural differences, varying regulations among countries, opportunistic behaviour across the supply chain, insufficient organisation of communication between collaborators as well and misalignment of their interests. We contribute empirical evidence of collaborative processes across bio-based food packaging supply chains providing a ground for further research streams across the aspects of collaboration for circular economy.