Managing quality, supplier selection, and cold?storage contracts in agrifood supply chain through stochastic optimization

The quality of such processed agrifood products as dehydrated apple is related to the and variety fresh harvested connected with wastage reduction throughout supply chain. For this purpose, cold-storage management important avoid or mitigate decay stored in refrigerated systems. This paper explores benefits a two-stage stochastic programming model for product through selection producers cold storage deterioration guarantee maintenance quality. A case study real data from an agribusiness company presented illustrate assess suitability approach. Uncertainty regarding conversion rate apples into final purchase cost system are represented scenarios generated historical data. Recourse actions include additional fruit renting stores meet demand. Based on different scenarios, value solution shows that modeling solving proposed minimizes costs by average around 6.4%. In addition, expected perfect information demonstrates using proactive strategy could reduce up 9%. These results ensure applicability practice before during harvesting season planning replanning uncertainty revealed under rolling horizon.