Publications by Nicolas Zufferey

Design of a quality control network for an international food company

Philippe Wieser, Nicolas Zufferey, Simone Lydia Voldrich

In this article, the design of a quality control network is considered in an entire supply chain, in the context of an international food and beverage company, denoted as ABC. For each possible control point of the network, two decisions have to be made: ( ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2020

Optimizing the trade-off between performance measures and operational risk in a food supply chain environment

Philippe Wieser, Nicolas Zufferey, Simone Lydia Voldrich

In the context of a growing world population and the need to use limited resources responsibly, this study is motivated by the increasing pressures on the food industry, which include issues of food security, safety, and waste. In the context of a global f ...

SPRINGER2020

Model and metaheuristics for a scheduling problem integrating procurement, sale and distribution decisions

Rémy Glardon, Nicolas Zufferey

This paper presents an integrated approach for short-term supply chain management (SCM) at a fast moving consumer goods production plant. The problem is to determine the production quantities, to provide a detailed production schedule, to trigger the relev ...

Springer2017

Competitive and timely food supply combined with operational risk

Philippe Wieser, Nicolas Zufferey, Simone Lydia Voldrich

2017

Performance versus Risk in a Food Supply Chain

Philippe Wieser, Nicolas Zufferey, Simone Lydia Voldrich

Prolog Project & Logistics2017

Performance versus Risk in a Food Supply Chain

Philippe Wieser, Nicolas Zufferey, Simone Lydia Voldrich

2017

Design Space Exploration Problem Formulation for Dataflow Programs on Heterogeneous Architectures

Marco Mattavelli, Malgorzata Maria Michalska, Endri Bezati, Nicolas Zufferey

The implementations of signal processing systems on the emerging many-core or multi-core processing platforms require to solve a very difficult problem: how to partition and schedule the processing tasks according to given optimization functions such as da ...

2016

Performance Estimation Based Multicriteria Partitioning Approach for Dynamic Dataflow Programs

Marco Mattavelli, Nicolas Zufferey, Malgorzata Maria Michalska

The problem of partitioning a dataflow program onto a target architecture is a difficult challenge for any application design. In general, since the problem is NP-complete, it consists of looking for high quality solutions in terms of maximizing the achiev ...

Hindawi Limited2016

Three-level inventory deployment for a luxury watch company facing various perturbations

Philippe Wieser, Nicolas Zufferey, Jean Respen

A well-known Swiss watch brand, active in the top-end luxury market, is facing a complex inventory deployment problem where watches of different models (more than 100 different models) must be dispatched first to wholesalers to finally reach the shops wher ...

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd2016

Food Supply Tomorrow: Combining Performance & Operational Risk

Philippe Wieser, Nicolas Zufferey, Simone Lydia Voldrich

2016