7th Food & Wine Supply Chain International Conference
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (not official site) - site is under development
The National University of Cuyo has the honor and pleasure of announcing the holding of the VII Food and Wine Supply Chain Conference.
As one of the most prestigious universities in Argentina, we wish to thank the Council for granting us the honor of assuming the responsibility of holding this event on October 7 to 11, 2024 in the City of Mendoza Argentina.
We congratulate whith our colleagues from:
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (host)
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile (co- host)
Università di Bologna, Italy (past hots)
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
Commonwealth and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia
Supply Chain and Logistics Institute, Georgia Tech, USA
Universidad Técnica de Manabí -Ecuador
and together with them we hope that you can participate in person or virtually.
Works will be received in the modality:
full paper (10 pages) 8.000 words LNCS template
short paper (5 pages) near 4.000 words LNCS template
case studies (10 pages plus link to dataset)
datasets (developed as notebooks and referenced with links, only in digital format)
story telling of wine labels and the viticultural landscape (4 pages plus a sample label alone in the last page)
Each authors is allowed to submit and present a maximum of 2 papers. Additional papers require a fee of U$D 100.
We also whant to thaks to prefoessors of Wine suppply chain counil and memer of diferents faculties of UNCuyo that wil worl as reviewer.
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The National University of Cuyo (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, UNCuyo) is the largest center of higher education in the province of Mendoza, Argentina.
As of 2023, the university had 12 academic schools in the city of Mendoza and a delegation in the city of San Rafael (province of Mendoza), in addition to the Balseiro Institute, which is the most developed institute of Physics research in Argentina, located in the city of San Carlos de Bariloche (province of Río Negro). It includes the University Technological Institute which offers technical education in four other cities in Mendoza province. Moreover, UNCuyo is also devoted to improving education due to having 7 other buildings working as High Schools:
Graduate
For more information, see the school’s web site.
Campus Luján de Cuyo
We are a research organization composed of supply chain professionals committed to improving international supply chains for wine. We share the results of our research (but protect the data of our partners and collaborators). There are great opportunities to make wine and food supply chains lean. This concept is associated with the world of manufacturing, where it was introduced by Toyota. But some of the same issues apply to supply chains, though in new and sometimes unexpected ways.
Elimination of waste This includes double-handling, such as moving wine among tanks, repacking bottles, repalletising cartons.
Management of variability Process time variability means downstream customers must endure occasional stock-outs or else protect themselves with extra inventory, an additional expense. Temperature variability damages wine by creating piston-like movements of the cork, which admits oxygen to the bottle.
Synchronisation and alignment All participants in the supply chain must coordinate to match production with consumption. But wine production requires long lead times and depends on unforeseeable factors such as weather.
Furthermore, many of the markets for alcohol are regulated in complex and arbitrary ways. Such factors create dilemmas all along the supply chain. For example, should the winery make-to-stock or make-to-order? Or should it produce unlabeled bottles for later customization? How can internet sales be facilitated? What will be the role of the distributor if the 3-tier system of distribution, now common in the US, is dismantled?
Continuous improvement There must be processes in place to constantly review and evaluate supply chain performance as a whole, and not just the independent enterprises along the chain. And the supply chain must look ahead to new challenges, such as carbon-based costs, or a reorganization of the current 3-tier distribution system in the World.
Every two years we organize the international conference on wine and food, which had its last event at the University of Bologna after the pandemic.We eagerly hope to see you in Mendoza in October 2024