OR IN FOOD INDUSTRY

Jessica Malhotra, Mahek Mehta, Nainesh Poladia, Nandni Khanna, Nimit Agarwal

With the increasing change in trend and fashion in today’s world, Food has become one of the important elements used to define one’s lifestyle and standards. But now, deciding ‘what to eat’ is a very essential part of a person’s daily routine. Alongside the changing needs and wants of people, the food industry has grown tremendously.

It is becoming increasingly clear that food tech is more and more of a logistics play and requires implementation of ordering and pricing strategy. Delivering and quality controlling is a complex problem with various aspects such as cost-effective routing, cost-effective delivery and pickup nodes, perishability of food, limited transport resources and there is a need to identify feasible as well as efficient solution methods to solve them. In this research paper, we have emphasized upon various methods through which techniques of operations research have been utilized to address various problems mentioned above.