Agricultural & Food Supply Chain Research Group
Managing agricultural and food supply chains from farm to consumer — cold chain logistics, food safety, and agri-logistics.
This group works the length of the journey food takes from farm to table — from primary production through to distribution and the final consumer. Its central aim is to make Thailand's agricultural and food supply chains more efficient, less wasteful, and safer, in a setting where most of what moves through them is perishable, seasonal, and quality-sensitive at every stage of transport.
Research spans inventory systems that account for defective items and environmental impact, temperature and humidity control across cold chains, and procurement planning for agricultural raw materials under uncertain harvests. The toolkit includes mathematical programming, genetic algorithms for delivery routing, and AI techniques that grade produce quality from photographs and hyperspectral imaging — sorting crops faster and more consistently than inspection by eye.
This work has been applied across a wide range of settings: temperature-controlled logistics for a national restaurant chain, line balancing for a large-scale poultry processor, supply chain studies for community enterprises processing local produce, and price forecasting for a commodity market as significant as natural rubber — connecting academic research directly to the practical realities of Thailand's agri-food sector.
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