Delivering the Goods: Lessons Learned from Direct Delivery of Kentucky Catfish

Berney, Gerald; Tropp, Debra; Clifton, Kimberly; McKenna, Larissa

doi:10.9752/ms025.03-2007

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“…However, the benefits of using a 3PL provider do not always outweigh the costs. The Purchase Area Aquaculture Cooperative originally used a 3PL provider to handle distribution but found that the numerous fees charged by their provider were too expensive [127]. Additionally, using a 3PL resulted in longer delivery times, because the products were routed through a distribution center, rather than being delivered directly to customers.…”

Section: Third-party Logistics (3pl)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Purchase Area Aquaculture Cooperative, a farmer cooperative in Kentucky, also uses different types of vehicles for different kinds of deliveries. Their system uses a leased truck to make small deliveries directly to customers, and distributors are hired to handle large deliveries [127]. Some RFSCs have also increased vehicle utilization through distribution network design.…”

Section: Efficient Vehicle Utilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, the implementation of a simple vehicle routing tool significantly reduced transportation costs for a regional food delivery company in Mexico [124]. Similarly, the Purchase Area Aquaculture Cooperative implemented a basic program that plans efficient routes, rather than a complex interactive model [127]. Bix Produce, a regional food distributor in Minnesota, uses two different routing systems to create efficient routes [123].…”

Section: Efficient Vehicle Utilizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Logistics Best Practices for Regional Food Systems: A Review

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Abstract:The modern industrial food supply system faces many major environmental and social sustainability challenges. Regional food systems, in which consumers prefer geographically proximate food producers, offer a response to these challenges. However, the costs associated with distributing food from many small-scale producers to consumers have been a major barrier to long-term regional food system success. Logistics best practices from conventional supply chains have the potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of regional food supply chains (RFSCs). This paper provides a structured and in-depth review of the existing literature on RFSC logistics, including recommended and implemented best practices. The purpose of the review is to provide RFSC researchers and practitioners with convenient access to valuable information and knowledge derived from years of experimentation and research. This information will help to inform practitioners' implementation decisions and to increase researchers' awareness of the existing work on RFSC logistics, the unmet needs of practitioners, and topics that have not been fully explored, yielding insights into potential future directions for RFSC research. The overarching aim of the paper is to facilitate improvements in RFSC logistics, thereby improving regional food system viability.

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Recognition of catfish fillets using computer vision toward automated singulation

Yao,

Jing,

et al. 2024

J Food Process Engineering

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Catfish fillets are produced from whole catfish through a series of processing operations including de‐heading, gutting, filleting, skinning, trimming, and freezing. Catfish processing facilities usually chill or freeze a certain number of catfish fillets as backup storage. Later, catfish fillets are pulled out of storage for further processing, where significant manual labor is needed to separate and flatten all the fillets for downstream processing, such as portioning, breading, and individually quick‐frozen (IQF). Due to the labor force shortage and increasing labor cost, there is a pressing need to automate the singulation task, thereby reducing labor dependence. Machine vision technology has been researched for automated quality evaluation of fish products. However, research is lacking on using machine vision for automated singulation of fish fillets. This study presents a novel machine vision system consisting of a color camera for the recognition of the folding status and orientations of catfish fillets toward realizing automated fillet singulation. A set of 400 images of catfish fillets in four different orientations was captured and annotated for each catfish fillet. Two deep learning‐based image segmentation models, that is, YOLOv8 and SegFormer‐B5, were trained on the dataset for catfish fillet recognition. YOLOv8 outperformed SegFormer in catfish recognition and achieved overall masked mAP (mean average precision) scores of 97.1% and 97.4% for underwater and out‐of‐water catfish fillets, respectively. The vision system combined with YOLOv8 has the potential to automate the recognition and subsequent handling operations of catfish fillets.Practical applicationsThe U.S. catfish industry is shrinking and facing great challenges because of international market competition and increasing production costs. The outbreak of COVID‐19 revealed a sharp deficiency in the labor force for the entire catfish industry, which has relied on manual labor for various processing operations. Mandatory lockdowns severely disrupted seafood supply chains and labor access. The tightening labor market has resulted in the delay of not only catfish processing but also production and distribution. It is imperative to increase the level of automation for processing operations such as IQF preparation process. At present, each processing facility needs 6–10 laborers for the manual catfish fillet IQF preparation process, implying that automating the process would potentially save hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual labor costs per processing line. The automation technology developed in this article has the potential to benefit the U.S. catfish processor by minimizing labor dependence and costs.

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Delivering the Goods: Lessons Learned from Direct Delivery of Kentucky Catfish

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